IATSE Contract Talks Shift to Toughest Issues: Wages, AI and Residuals

variety.com IATSE negotiators are bracing for the next phase of contract negotiations with Hollywood’s major studios and streamers after the conclusion this week of talks with all 13…

Producers United Is Launched By 86 Top Film & TV “Career Producers” To Change Fee Structure, Get Health Benefits & Stop Gradual Ecosystem Erosion

deadline.com As signatories prepare to negotiate new deals with IATSE and Teamsters, it might seem like the last thing the town wants to chew on is another group claiming it has gotten…

Studio Teachers Reach Tentative Deal With AMPTP On Craft-Specific Issues; Local 44 Seeks To Finalize Bargaining

deadline.com have struck a tentative deal with the studios. Local 884 came to a preliminary agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on craft-specific…

Freelance Casting Assistants Seek Union Representation From Teamsters

deadline.com Freelance casting assistants are seeking to be unionized under the Teamsters. Teamsters Locals 399 and 817 on Thursday proposed voluntary recognition of freelance casting…

Freelance Casting Assistants Launch Attempt to Unionize With Teamsters

hollywoodreporter.com Freelance casting assistants are launching an attempt to unionize with the Teamsters. Nearly 150 New York- and Los Angeles-based casting assistants are supporting the drive…

Writers Guild of Canada Overwhelmingly Votes to Authorize Strike Over AI, Fair Pay

hollywoodreporter.com Canadian writers appear ready to strike as they hold contract talks with the country’s indie film and television producers. The Writers Guild of Canada revealed 96.5 percent…

Costumers Reach Tentative Deal With Studios On Craft-Specific Issues; 2 IATSE Locals Still In Talks As Union Looks Ahead To General Negotiations

deadline.com IATSE is ending the week with at least one more Local negotiation under its belt. The Motion Picture Costumers (Local 705) struck a tentative deal with the Alliance of…

IATSE Local 705 Reaches Tentative Agreement on Craft-Specific Issues With Studios

hollywoodreporter.com The union representing West Coast costumers has reached a tentative agreement on its craft-specific issues with studios and streamers. IATSE Local 705 struck a provisional…

Writers Guild Of Canada Calls For Strike-Authorization Vote Against Canadian Media Producers

deadline.com The Writers Guild of Canada has called for a strike-authorization vote amid ongoing negotiations on its Independent Production Agreement with the Canadian Media Producers…

Hollywood’s AI Concerns Present New and Complex Challenges for Legal Eagles to Untangle

variety.com Technology has been disrupting Hollywood even longer than the L.A. district now synonymous with the entertainment business has existed. From Thomas Edison’s 1877 invention…

Actors, Record Labels Ink Deal Limiting AI Voice Use

decrypt.co Voting started today on a deal negotiated between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and members of the recording…

IATSE Has “Cautious Optimism” About General Negotiations With Studios As Union Aims To Finalize Craft-Specific Issues This Week

deadline.com IATSE is looking to wrap up local-specific negotiations with the studios this week before the guild turns its attention to general contract talks. There are just three…

Writers Guild Spoofs Studios’ Top Labor Negotiator at Awards Ceremony: “See You on the Picket Line in 2026”

hollywoodreporter.com The Writers Guild of America resurfaced its 2023 strike in a comedy bit that unfurled at the union’s Los Angeles awards ceremony on Sunday night. More than half a year after…