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EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live's editorial crew has said yes in a big way to its first-ever union contract at the Lorne Michaels-led NBC late-night show. Five days after the Editors Guild and NBCUniversal reached a tentative deal to advert an April 1 strike, the 20-plus SNL editorial crew unanimously…

Alan Heim has been re-elected president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700. Heim, who ran unopposed, has been president of the guild since January 2014. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz and was Oscar-nominated for Network. All of the guild's other incumbent officers…

EXCLUSIVE: About two dozen post-production workers at ShadowMachine, the animation studio behind Tuca & Bertie, Robot Chicken and BoJack Horseman, have unionized with the Motion Picture Editors Guild. The move became official through a card-check process verified by a neutral third party…

Motion picture editorial employees of Fox-owned Bento Box Entertainment have voted overwhelmingly to unionize under the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700. The company has agreed to recognize the editors union after an arbitrator verified that a majority of the employees had signed union-authorization…

EXCLUSIVE: Dozens of Vice post-production staff and employees are about to receive a wage increase and a more stable work week. By an overwhelming 97% margin, editors and other members of the Brooklyn-based unconventional outfit voted via videoconference yesterday for a new three-year agreement with the Hollywood…

With IATSE members set to vote this weekend for or against ratification of a new Basic Agreement, the outcome could well be determined by the union's three largest Hollywood locals: Cinematographers Guild Local 600, Editors Guild Local 700 and Prop Local 44. Together, they have enough electoral votes to decide the…

As IATSE members prepare to vote this weekend on a proposed new film and TV contract, membership discontent is evident not only on social media but also is a playing out in the Editors Guild's upcoming board elections. In their campaign statements, none of the guild's 23 board candidates openly opposes the tentative…

With IATSE members set to begin voting Friday for a strike authorization, the union's leaders say they have a message for Hollywood's media conglomerates: "You're gonna change the way you do business." The union's petition calling for the companies to give the union a fair contract, meanwhile, has now passed 100,000…

Leaders of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, are urging their members to vote "overwhelmingly" to authorize a strike against film and TV production companies. The guild's board, meeting on Tuesday, voted unanimously to recommend that members back the strike authorization after negotiations with the AMPTP for a new…

A recent membership survey conducted by the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, found that 76.6% of respondents believe that discrimination occurs "often" or "sometimes" in the workplace. Only 4.5% said they believe discrimination "never" happens on the job, while 16.7% said they think it "rarely" occurs. The survey also…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood's unions are hurting. Membership dues, their largest source of revenue, have plummeted during the pandemic as a result of massive job losses and dues relief they've provided to their members. Annual financial reports that have just been filed with the Department of Labor show that entertainment…

Marjo Bernay, the trailblazing labor leader and feminist activist who once led three Los Angeles-based IATSE locals and served on the board of another, died Sunday of heart disease. She was 79. During her more than 40 years in the labor movement, she was the business agent of Illustrators & Matte Artists Local 790…