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Hollywood's Covid safety protocols, which had been set to expire over the weekend, are being extended on a day-to-day basis as labor and management continue to work out details for a formal extension – the first since the highly infectious Omicron variant has led to a worldwide surge in cases, hospitalizations and…

Negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts unions will resume for three days of bargaining January 19. The talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers got underway December 6 but recessed 10 days later to take a break for the…

Hollywood's guilds and unions saved the film and TV business in 2021. Working cooperatively with the industry’s companies, they adopted Covid-19 protocols that got production booming and their members safely back to work, all the while averting strikes that would have crippled recovery efforts. And earlier this year…

EXCLUSIVE: Negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts unions have taken a hiatus for the holidays. The talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers got underway on December 6, and both sides agreed Thursday night to come back to the…

Negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts unions will begin this week with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The current contract had been set to expire July 31 but was extended to allow for industry-wide return-to-work discussions…

The Animation Guild's contract negotiations with the AMPTP have broken off without a deal but will resume later next year. "An agreement was not reached today," Alexandra Drosu, the guild's director of communications and content, told Deadline tonight. "We will have to continue negotiations in the New Year though no…

Contract negotiations between the Animation Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are entering their fifth day – one more than had been scheduled. Major issues for the union include better terms for streaming shows; a significant pay raise for animation writers – who make far less than…

The third day of the Animation Guild's contract negotiations with the AMPTP are underway. The talks Wednesday come in the wake of IATSE's deal for a new film and TV contract, which was narrowly ratified amid growing discontent among IATSE members over pay and working conditions. The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839…

EXCLUSIVE: By a narrow margin, IATSE's largest local, the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600, was one of five Los Angeles-based locals that voted to reject the union's new film and TV contract, with eight other locals providing the margin needed for ratification. Local 600 leaders, who had recommended a Yes…

UPDATED with AMPTP statement: IATSE members have ratified their new film and TV contracts, averting a showdown with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after contentious negotiations that began six months ago. However, union leadership suffered a harsh rebuke as L.A. locals rejected the deal in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Heading towards a near midnight Sunday deadline, IATSE members now have their ballots to vote on a new three-year deal with the producers. The nearly 60,000 members of the below-the-line union received emails this morning starting around 6 AM PT prompting them to login in and digitally cast their vote. As…

"Our resolve and our demonstrated willingness to walk off the job took management by surprise and was ultimately what forced the producers to finally move on our central issues after months of talks," declares IATSE in a video pitch to union members to vote Yes on the new deal tentative stuck last month. "This is what…