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Paul F. Dean Jr. has been elected 13th international vice president of IATSE in a unanimous vote of the union's general executive board. Dean, who is the theatrical business manager of IATSE Local One in New York, succeeds James J. Claffey Jr., former president of Local One, who stepped down from IATSE's executive…

Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians has issued a "Do Not Work" order against Distinguished Concerts International New York, labeling it an "unfair employer." The move comes more than two years after DCINY's orchestra formed a union with Local 802, though the parties have yet to reach an agreement on a…

Musicians will rally Monday outside Carnegie Hall for a fair contract with Distinguished Concerts International New York, a for-profit company that holds most of its concerts at the celebrated venue. The rally will start at 6 pm ET. DCINY's orchestra formed a union with Local 802 of the American Federation of…

The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have drawn up a tentative agreement on a new film and television contract. The deal comes after a month’s worth of total negotiation days since November. The guild's current contract had originally been set to expire last…

Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a new settlement between the Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association. The NDAs, Equity says, prohibited the union members from speaking about potential…

A tentative agreement has been reached for a new three-year contract covering casting directors and associate casting directors in Los Angeles and New York. The deal was reached Tuesday evening after two months of bargaining between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television and Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and…

In the wake of the racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, the IATSE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee is urging Congress and the Joe Biden administration "to take decisive federal action to combat the rise of racial violence in America." "The IATSE and entire labor movement is…

EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer’s workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid a slowdown in the company’s revenue growth. They are largely based in the U.S., with a significant portion in creative, across both film and TV, sources said. A number of those laid…

IATSE Local 161, which represents East Coast script supervisors, production coordinators and accountants, will begin bargaining with the AMPTP on Monday for a new film and TV contract. Pay equity is a major issue, said Dawn Mountain, the local's president and chair of its contract negotiations committee. Mountain, a…

Actors' Equity is blasting an audience member who secretly videotaped Jesse Williams’ nude scene while performing in Take Me Out at the Second Stage Theater in NYC and then released it on Twitter. Equity called it an act of “sexual harassment and an appalling breach of consent.” The NYC theater, which collects…

Hollywood’s unions have reached an agreement with management’s AMPTP on revised Covid-19 protocols. In a statement, the unions said that the new agreement “creates a more flexible set of protocols for areas of the United States and Canada with low Covid hospital admissions, while maintaining core elements to keep sets…

SAG-AFTRA members have overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new $1 billion-a-year set of commercials contracts that the union says is valued at an additional $120 million for members over the three-year span of the contracts. The vote, which was 92,25% in favor, was in line with last month’s vote of the national board…