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Hollywood’s Covid Protocols Extended Until New Agreement Can Be Reached
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…
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Hollywood Extends Covid Protocols To February 13 – Updated
UPDATED with more details: Hollywood's Covid safety protocols have been extended to February 13. In the meantime, with the surge of the Omicron variant, the industry's unions have asked the studios to increase testing and upgrade personal protection equipment, and most of the companies have been doing that until new…
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By David Robb
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Labor & Management Working To Extend Hollywood’s Covid Protocols To Address Omicron Surge
Hollywood's Covid safety protocols, which had been set to expire over the weekend, are being extended on a day-to-day basis as labor and management continue to work out details for a formal extension – the first since the highly infectious Omicron variant has led to a worldwide surge in cases, hospitalizations and…
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How Unions Saved Hollywood During The Pandemic And What’s In Store For 2022
Hollywood's guilds and unions saved the film and TV business in 2021. Working cooperatively with the industry’s companies, they adopted Covid-19 protocols that got production booming and their members safely back to work, all the while averting strikes that would have crippled recovery efforts.
And earlier this year…
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Newly Elected Teamsters President Sean O’Brien Still Facing Questions About His Role In ‘Top Chef’ Extortion Case
Questions about the role newly elected Teamsters president Sean O'Brien played in a thuggish 2014 labor dispute on the Boston set of Top Chef are still dogging him, resurfacing recently in the run-up to his election last week.
O'Brien, president of Boston's Teamsters Local 25, steadfastly has maintained that he was…
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Sean O’Brien Elected Teamsters President, Succeeding James P. Hoffa; Local 399’s Lindsay Dougherty Elected As A Western Region VP
Sean O'Brien has been elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and his slate of reform-minded Teamsters United running mates will lead the 1.3 million-member union for the next five years. O'Brien succeeds James P. Hoffa, the son of infamous Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who chose not to seek…
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DGA, SAG-AFTRA, WGA East, WGA West & Teamsters Express “Solidarity” With IATSE – Updated
UPDATED with WGA West Statement: Hollywood’s unions have issued a statement of support for IATSE in its efforts to reach a new film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP, saying that they “stand in solidarity” with IATSE as it prepares to conduct a strike authorization among its members.
The statement was signed by…
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By David Robb
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Mandatory Vaccinations On Productions An Option Under Return-To-Work Protocols – Update
2ND UPDATE with more details and reaction, 9:17 PM:: Mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations on film and TV productions now will be allowed, on a restricted basis, under a new agreement reached Monday between Hollywood’s unions and the major companies. The new protocols, they said in a joint statement, will give producers…
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By David Robb
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No Mandatory Vaccines In Film & TV Industry’s Updated Return-To-Work Protocols
EXCLUSIVE: Covid-19 vaccinations of casts and crews will not be mandatory on film and TV productions under the industry's newly renegotiated return-to-work protocols, which now extend to June 30. "To mandate at this point may be premature,” a source told Deadline. "That subject has been skirted."
The source noted…
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By David Robb
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Commercial Producers Agree To Covid-19 Testing In New Pact With DGA, IATSE & Teamsters
A multi-union coalition of Hollywood unions has reached an agreement with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers for new return-to-work protocols that largely mirror those adopted by the film and TV industry in September. Testing for the coronavirus is one of the major changes in the new AICP agreement…
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By David Robb
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Hollywood Producers Agree To Notify Unions When Cast Or Crew Test Positive For Covid-19; Amends Existing Protocols
Hollywood has tweaked its return-to-work protocols as more and more films and TV shows have had to pause production after members of their casts and crews tested positive for Covid-19. Under a new agreement that took effect November 30, producers will now have to notify the unions of positive test results on their…
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By David Robb
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Hollywood Labor Unions & Management Finalize Return-To-Work Agreement
UPDATED with highlights of the deal and quotes: Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP finally have an agreement to return to work in the coronavirus era. Union sources say the deal took much longer to reach than they would have liked or expected.
The agreement means that the studios, networks, major companies and…
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