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UPDATED with Matthew Loeb’s full message to membership: IATSE has told its members that ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract are "fluid" and that members should "disregard any information you read in the press as it is not necessarily an accurate representation of what is actually…

IATSE and the AMPTP are "still talking" and are expected to return to the virtual bargaining table again Friday. Armed with strike authorization from his members, IATSE president Matthew Loeb can call a nationwide walkout of film and TV workers at any time if he and AMPTP president Carol Lombardini can't reach a fair…

IATSE and the AMPTP have resumed bargaining today after working all day Tuesday to avert a threatened nationwide strike against film and TV productions. These last-ditch negotiations come after 53,000 IATSE members voted almost unanimously to give their president, Matthew Loeb, the authority to call a strike if he and…

IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to return to the bargaining table on Tuesday following the union's historic strike-authorization vote. It will be the first time since September 12 that the two sides have engaged in collective bargaining. "I hope that the studios will see…

(Updated with statements & social media post) In an overwhelming show of union solidarity, IATSE members have voted to authorize a nationwide strike against film and TV productions if last-ditch negotiations with the AMPTP fail to produce a fair deal. The vote – 98% in favor – now gives IATSE president Matthew Loeb…

IATSE will convene its 69th Quadrennial Convention on July 27, concluding two days later with the election of officers "if necessary," the union said today. Elections are only necessary if there is a challenger to an incumbent, which hasn't been the case at each of the last three conventions, dating back to 2009. The…

IATSE president Matthew Loeb notified President Joe Biden today that his union's members stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to convert existing entertainment venues and convention centers into vaccination sites in order to get shots into the arms of Americans as rapidly as possible. The…

IATSE has adopted a "zero tolerance" policy for members who fail to follow strict COVID-19 safety protocols on set. "Failing to follow all COVID-19 safety guidelines is conduct unbecoming" a member, IATSE president Matthew Loeb said, "and may subject members to discipline as well as termination from work by your…

In what could be a precursor to placing IATSE Editors Guild Local 700 into trusteeship, IATSE president Matthew Loeb has fired off a blistering letter (read it here) accusing Local 700 executive director Cathy Repola of violating federal labor law, of waging a "propaganda campaign" against ratification of the union's…

EXCLUSIVE: In a letter circulating union inboxes today, dozens of IATSE members have come to Matthew Loeb's defense over claims by the Motion Picture Editors Guild of recent "unprofessional and potentially illegal acts" and disparaging remarks by the International president. However, to paraphrase Lin-Manuel Miranda's…

EXCLUSIVE: Any faint chance that the dispute over ratification of a proposed new film and TV contract and the near toxic atmosphere between IATSE's International President and the Motion Picture Editors Guild was going to be cleared up looks to be total lost cause. After exclusively revealing a hard-hitting letter…

EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented Hollywood union schism, the Motion Picture Editors Guild is demanding an apology and more from IATSE International President Matthew Loeb after an explosive executive board meeting on August 6 that went very bad and seemingly got very personal. "We have been advised by our client that…