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…

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 you…

Today's tentative agreement on a new IATSE film and TV contract is being recommended for membership ratification by leaders of 12 of IATSE's 13 Hollywood locals, including two of its three national locals – Cinematographers Guild Local 600 and Art Directors Guild Local 800. Only the Editors Guild Local 700 is…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with more details: Strike talk was in the air today at a jam-packed membership meeting of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, where union leaders gave an update on stalled negotiations for a new IATSE film and TV contract. Those talks are set to resume later this week in advance of the July 31…

EXCLUSIVE: In an increasingly rare occurrence in Hollywood nowadays, the successful effort by editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio to unionize has been welcomed by the SpongeBob SquarePants home's corporate bosses.

An independent arbitrator this morning signed off that a clear majority of the currently n…

Vice Media employees who create video content across the company's media outlets have unionized. The WGA East said today that it will represent the workers along with the AFL-CIO and the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700.

The deal covers about 430 staff and freelance employees working on video content for V…

UPDATE, 4:35 PM: A strike today by dozens of workers at Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema is over – for now. After the walkout at around 11:30 AM and picket lines this afternoon, IATSE and a postproduction local, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, shut down their own labor action. The union sent people back into the…

EXCLUSIVE: By a vote of 43-20, employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema tonight voted to join IATSE and its postproduction local the Motion Picture Editors Guild. This comes a year after postproduction technicians and artists at Deluxe's Culver City unit on the Sony lot overwhelmingly jumped into the union…

As Deadline exclusively reported last week, The Motion Picture Editors Guild board of directors has announced Catherine A. Repola as their pick to succeed outgoing National Executive Director Ron Kutak when he retires November 1. Repola, Western Executive Director of the Guild since 2010, first joined MPEG as an…

The former employees of Sony Colorworks officially want back the union benefits they used to have. In an election today conducted by the Labor Relations Board, 23 of the 25 votes cast among postproduction technicians and artists at Deluxe's Culver City unit on the Sony lot were to join the Motion Picture Editors Guild…