IATSE Rejoined By Teamsters, Hollywood Basic Crafts To Kick Off Union’s General Contract Talks With AMPTP
deadline.comOne week down, many to go. IATSE was rejoined at the negotiating table this week by Teamsters Local 399 and the rest of the Hollywood Basic Crafts to continue bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on collective benefit plans.
This is the first time that the below-the-line unions have been at the table together since March, when they kicked off talks by linking arms to propose provisions to the shared Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans.
Joint bargaining on the benefit plans ran through Wednesday, before IATSE transitioned to working condition proposals on Thursday.
Deadline understands that counterproposals have now been made on the pension and health provisions, but negotiations are still ongoing.
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