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Members of the Directors Guild of Canada in British Columbia have voted overwhelmingly – 89.5% to 10.5% – to ratify a new three-year film and TV contract with the AMPTP and the Canadian Media Producers Association-BC. The guild said Thursday that 64% of eligible members and permittees took part in the vote “to make…

The Directors Guild of Canada BC has released the terms of a tentative agreement that ended the recent labor dispute in British Columbia. The new three-year deal with the AMPTP and Canadian Media Producers Association includes what the guild says are "significant gains" for the lowest paid and entry level workers, as…

A small group of freelance post-production coordinators in New York have voted unanimously to join the Communications Workers of America in NLRB-supervised elections at eight separate companies, including Apple Studios, Netflix Productions, Universal Television, CBS Studios, Showtime, HBO, Turner and Disney…

The Directors Guild of Canada BC has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract covering films and TV shows shot in British Columbia. "As of this afternoon, the DGC BC has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP and the Canadian Media Producers Association," the guild said in a statement. "We are finalizing…

EXCLUSIVE: The Directors Guild of Canada BC has returned to the virtual bargaining table with the AMPTP and the Canadian Media Producers Association in an attempt to reach an agreement on a new film and TV contract. "The DGC BC and the negotiating producers continue to bargain this week, meeting virtually," the guild…

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…

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…

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…

Hollywood's unions have agreed to extend the film and TV industry’s current Covid safety protocols until a new agreement can be reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The protocols had been set to expire on Saturday. The extension was agreed to by the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters…

The Directors Guild of Canada BC’s strike deadline has now passed. Asked if the guild is on strike, a spokesperson told Deadline that “the answer isn’t as simple” in British Columbia, where in 2008 the BC Labor Board imposed safe harbor agreements upon the industry to provide for labor stability during collective…

With contract negotiations stalled and the Directors Guild of Canada BC threatening to go on strike in British Columbia in the next 48 hours, the organizations representing producers there now appear resigned to the inevitability of a work stoppage in the province. On Tuesday, the DGC BC issued a 72-hour strike…

Contract talks have stalled and the Directors Guild of Canada BC has issued a 72-hour strike notice, the next and possibly final step before the guild launches a work stoppage in British Columbia. Barring a last minute settlement, a work stoppage could come any day. The latest move comes in the wake of a strike mandate…