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Unusual Negotiations For Unusual Times: In Fending Off Rollback Demands, IATSE Says Media Conglomerates Came To Bargaining Table With “Good Amount Of Arrogance”

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Contract negotiations leading up to the tentative agreement that IATSE members will be voting on this weekend were unlike any that had come before.

Conducted after the film and TV industry roared back to life from the darkest days of the pandemic, the giant media conglomerates came to the bargaining table demanding a wide range of rollbacks in pay and benefits, which the union successfully thwarted after members, for the first time ever, voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike.“The tone and tenor of negotiations this time was much different from what we’ve experienced in previous years,” wrote Thom Davis, business manager of Grips Local 80 and IATSE’s 2nd international vice president, in a recent message to his members. “Not only was it

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