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A tentative agreement has been reached for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts. The agreement was reached this evening, and the unions’ bargaining committee is unanimously recommending it for ratification. The deal, which covers union work in 13 Western states, must…

A coalition of entertainment industry unions and associations is urging Congress to include the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act in any omnibus legislation that may come before the House and Senate for fiscal year 2022. In a letter sent Thursday to leaders of the House and Senate, supporters of the legislation say it…

Bob Iger is barely out the door at the Walt Disney Company and already a film from a scion of the founding family has  come along to give the well compensated ex-CEO a kick in the ass. However, the Abigail Disney co-directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales documentary doesn't have much to add to the…

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…

The editorial staff at digital news site Slate has unanimously ratified its second collective bargaining agreement with the WGA East. The new three-year contract, covering 56 staffers, will see salary minimums rise to $58,000 by 2024, up from the current minimum of $51,000. Slate won union recognition in January 2018…

The AFL-CIO’s Department for Professional Employees is urging Congress to increase federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to $565 million in fiscal year 2022 and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities to $201 million each – funding levels that were passed…

Following a routine investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor has found no basis to overturn last year's election of Fran Drescher as president of SAG-AFTRA. In rejecting protesters’ claims, the union's own national election committee came to the same conclusion in October. "Your complaint to the Department of Labor…

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…

On Monday, most workers in Hollywood will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday for the very first time. MLK Day, observed on the third Monday in January, has been a federal holiday since 1986, but it hasn't been a paid day off for many in the industry until now. It’s still not provided for in most of…

The WGA East's second contract with Fast Company and Inc. has been unanimously ratified by their 60-member editorial staffs. The two print and digital business news outlets are owned by Mansueto Ventures. "The WGA East members at Fast Company and Inc. won a second collective bargaining agreement that successfully…

EXCLUSIVE: A sensational wrongful-termination lawsuit filed last year by Michael Mendez against IATSE Grips Local 80 has been settled. Mendez, the local's former assistant business representative, claimed he was fired last February in retaliation for complaining about "lewd sexual misconduct" and "sexual harassment"…

Glenn Berger, longtime national controller for the International Cinematographers Guild, died today at work in the union’s headquarters on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He was 64 and just four days away from retirement. “Our hearts are broken as we write to inform you of the sudden passing of a beloved member of…