Former Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Collins has been hired as communications director for the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700. In the newly created post, Collins will serve as the editor of the guild's quarterly magazine, CineMontage, and its related website as well as the guild's social media platforms. Tomm…

Cathy Repola, national executive director of IATSE Editors Guild Local 700, has told her members that despite what other IATSE local leaders are telling their members, the continuing decline in the funding percentage of the Motion Picture Industry Pension Plan "is cause for justifiable concern — and something on which…

EXCLUSIVE: The Editors Guild has joined the tsunami of protests over the Film Academy's decision to hand out four Oscars – including the one for Best Editing – during commercial breaks in the February 24 telecast on ABC. The Academy's decision, which also relegates cinematographers, makeup artists and hairstylists and…

In a year-end message to her members, Cathy Repola, national executive director of Editors Guild Local 700, said that IATSE president Matt Loeb "had no interest in any input from me" during the union's recent negotiations for a new film and TV contract. "He was not interested in what I had to say and was completely…

UPDATED with statement from Editor Guild executive: IATSE president Matt Loeb has sternly rebuked Editors Guild leaders Cathy Repola and Alan Heim, telling them that their claim that she was removed as a director of the union's pension and health plans in retaliation for her opposition to IATSE's new film and TV…

EXCLUSIVE: IATSE international president Matt Loeb has unceremoniously booted Cathy Repola off the board of directors of the union's pension and health plans after she tangled with him over the ratification of the union's new film and TV contract. Repola, the national executive director of the Editors Guild, IATSE…

Deborah Eden, whose husband Brent Hershman was killed while driving home after working a 19-hour day on Pleasantville in 1997, has joined the “Vote No to Save Lives” movement, urging IATSE members to reject the union’s new film and TV contract. Please vote no!" she posted on Facebook. Ratification ballots were sent…

In recommending a "no vote" on the ratification of new IATSE film and TV contract, Editors Guild Local 700 says that the pact's new media residuals formula has such an "extraordinarily narrow scope" that it "excludes nearly all of new media." In a posting on its website, the guild says that Netflix's Bright "was the…

EXCLUSIVE: Cathy Repola, the national executive director of the Editors Guild, has fired back at IATSE president Matt Loeb, who earlier today accused her of having "violated federal labor law" by taking part in the union's recent negotiations for a new film and TV contract. "I grew up in an IATSE household and have…

Social media is abuzz with resistance to the new IATSE film and TV contract, with opponents urging members to reject it and send the parties back to the bargaining table to hammer out a better deal. But a no vote could just as easily result in a strike without any resumption of talks. It would all be up to IATSE…

EXCLUSIVE: The Editors Guild's board of directors voted unanimously today to recommend that members vote "No" on the ratification of a new IATSE film and TV contract. The move comes just two days after IATSE reached a tentative agreement with management's AMPTP on terms for a new three-year contract — a deal that…

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Kutak, the longtime national executive director of IATSE Editors Guild Local 700, will retire on November 1. He will be succeeded by Cathy Repola, the guild's Western executive director. Kutak, 66, is the longest-serving chief executive officer of any union in Hollywood. He came to the guild in 1981 as…