Teamsters Put Pedal To The Metal For Independent Commercial Producers Talks & Deal
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: As the Writers Guild strike enters its second month and the Directors Guild’s talks with the studios come down to the wire with looming SAG-AFTRA negotiations set to start next week, the under the radar battle between the Teamsters and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers could get explosive.
Demanding that the AICP return to the bargaining table ASAP over wage increases, greater overtime compensation and more to avert a strike next month, Teamsters Local 399 have instituted a self-described “week of action” to kick things into high gear. “Retroactivity is not a thing in the commercial world,” Local 399 VP and Chief Negotiator in commercials, Joshua Staheli told Deadline today of the Don’t Make Us Take A Commercial Break campaign. “Deals are made with ad agencies up front.
The commercials producers can’t go back and change the terms after a project has wrapped. This means, anything less than a raise for our members on July 1st of this year is a pay cut.
We need the AICP to get serious about getting a deal done before June 30th.” With about 500 members on average annually that work on commercials, the Lindsay Dougherty-led Local 399 wants to see the AICP agree to further talks in the next week or so.
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