IATSE Members Prepare Strike Signs As Contract Talks Continue

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significant complaints from rank and file IATSE members about the early details of the new agreement with studios. On social media and also in conversations with TheWrap, several IATSE members criticized issues pertaining to working conditions — such as lunch breaks and turnarounds — as explained in the announcement of the three-year deal sent on Saturday night.

With contract negotiations coming down to the wire, IATSE says that members not directly involved in a threatened work stoppage can still engage in “sympathy strikes.” Members can refuse to cross a picket line at their worksites if they chose to do so as a matter of “conscience.”

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The memo, obtained by TheWrap, lists the IATSE locals that will be striking on Monday if a deal isn’t reached. While the 13 West Coast locals are the primary groups that are striking, three of those locals — the International Cinematographers Guild, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Art Directors Guild — are nationwide, effectively expanding the scope of the shutdown to almost all film and television projects across the U.S.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIATSE leadership got a big win on Oct. 4, when more than 98% of the rank and file voted to authorize a strike.Having riled people up, the leaders now face pressure to deliver the goods.

announced Wednesday that unless an agreement is reached, union members will begin a nationwide strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on Monday, October 18 at 12:01 a.m., PDT.The deadline makes good on Loeb’s previous statement that he wanted the negotiating to end one way or another in “days, not weeks.” And the announcement even includes a countdown clock until that date and time.

IATSE is gearing up for a strike if contract talks with the AMPTP fail to produce a fair deal. “We are hoping for a deal but preparing for a strike,” a union source tells Deadline.

“We continue to stand firm on the priority issues that you supported with your strike authorization vote.  Those are living wages, sustainable benefits, our fair share of streaming success, reasonable rest and breaks during the workday,” read a memo sent to members of IATSE Local 700, the Motion Picture Editors Guild by National Executive Director Cathy Repola.“It is in the best interest of all IATSE members across the country that we continue to bargain until it becomes apparent that we cannot

IATSE and the AMPTP have ended their fifth day of do-or-die contract talks and will resume bargaining for a new film and TV pact on Monday. But if a deal is to be reached, and a strike averted, it will have to be made soon. On Friday, Matt Loeb, the union’s president, said that either way, “It’s a matter of days, not weeks.” The two sides have been bargaining, on and off, since mid-May.

A threatened IATSE strike against the Kennedy Center has been averted. Following late night bargaining Friday and a unanimous vote to strike earlier this week, stagehands represented by IATSE Stagehands Local 22 have reached an agreement for a new three-year contract with the management of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The agreement was ratified by the union’s membership at a meeting on Saturday.

IATSE has told its members that ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract are “fluid” and that members should “disregard any information you read in the press as it is not necessarily an accurate representation of what is actually occurring.”

IATSE and the AMPTP are “still talking” and are expected to return to the virtual bargaining table again Friday. Armed with strike authorization from his members, IATSE president Matthew Loeb can call a nationwide walkout of film and TV workers at any time if he and AMPTP president Carol Lombardini can’t reach a fair deal.

voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a new agreement can’t be reached. Details about the current state of talks between the groups are scant, as both are engaged in a media blackout, as is customary during labor negotiations.The strike authorization vote wasn’t intended to make a strike inevitable.