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EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Hopkins has resigned as president of IATSE Local 871, in part because of her dissatisfaction with IATSE's new film and TV contract. Marisa Shipley, the local's current vice president, will be the local's next president, running unopposed to succeed Hopkins in the local's ongoing election. Hopkins…

EXCLUSIVE: By a narrow margin, IATSE's largest local, the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600, was one of five Los Angeles-based locals that voted to reject the union's new film and TV contract, with eight other locals providing the margin needed for ratification. Local 600 leaders, who had recommended a Yes…

UPDATED with AMPTP statement: IATSE members have ratified their new film and TV contracts, averting a showdown with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after contentious negotiations that began six months ago. However, union leadership suffered a harsh rebuke as L.A. locals rejected the deal in the…

With IATSE members set to vote this weekend for or against ratification of a new Basic Agreement, the outcome could well be determined by the union's three largest Hollywood locals: Cinematographers Guild Local 600, Editors Guild Local 700 and Prop Local 44. Together, they have enough electoral votes to decide the…

EXCLUSIVE: Heading towards a near midnight Sunday deadline, IATSE members now have their ballots to vote on a new three-year deal with the producers. The nearly 60,000 members of the below-the-line union received emails this morning starting around 6 AM PT prompting them to login in and digitally cast their vote. As…

Hollywood's Covid-19 safety protocols have been extended to January 15. The protocols, which had been set to expire on Oct. 31, include testing and vaccination mandates. Established in September 2020 by an agreement between the AMPTP and Hollywood's unions – the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters and the Basic…

In what could be their final message to members before voting begins this weekend on the ratification of a new IATSE film and TV contract, leaders of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600, say they're voting "Yes" on the pact. They are also urging all their members to vote, stay involved, look ahead to…

IATSE president Matthew Loeb, in what could be his final message to his members before they vote this weekend on a tentative agreement for a new film and contract, is urging them to vote "Yes" on ratification. "You have recently been provided with information related to the renegotiation of the Producer-IATSE Basic…

Growing rank-and-file opposition to IATSE's tentative agreement for a new film and TV contract could spell trouble for its ratification as voting by the membership begins and ends this weekend. Opponents have been holding a series of members-only town hall meetings to express their discontent and share their concerns…

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…

As IATSE members prepare to vote this weekend on a proposed new film and TV contract, membership discontent is evident not only on social media but also is a playing out in the Editors Guild's upcoming board elections. In their campaign statements, none of the guild's 23 board candidates openly opposes the tentative…

EXCLUSIVE: Economic gains contained in IATSE's tentative agreement with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract are expected to exceed half a billion dollars over the next three years. To put those gains into context, last year, when SAG-AFTRA negotiated its new film and TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture…