Additional IATSE Locals Reach Tentative Deals on Craft-Specific Issues

Katie Kilkenny
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Two more IATSE Locals — covering set lighting professionals and costume designers — have reached tentative agreements on craft-specific issues with Hollywood’s top studios and streamers.

IATSE Local 728, whose members include lighting programmers and chief rigging technicians, reached a provisional deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Thursday, IATSE announced on Friday. Meanwhile, on Tuesday the Costume Designers Guild (IATSE Local 892) announced on Instagram that it had also agreed to a tentative deal with the AMPTP.

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“This bargaining calendar, together with the diligent preparation work that the West Coast Studio Locals’ Negotiation Committees have done, has meant that the time we have spent at the table so far with the employers was effective,” IATSE vp Mike Miller said in a statement.

With these latest agreements, 10 IATSE Locals have now made tentative deals with the AMPTP on craft-specific issues. Those Locals include The International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600), the Art Directors Guild (Local 800), the motion picture set painters and sign writers union Local 729, production sound crew union Local 695, grips and craft services union Local 80, make-up artists and hair stylists union Local 706, script supervisor and art department coordinator union Local 871 and the Motion Picture Editors Guild (Local 700).

During the week of April 15-19, IATSE Locals 44, 705 and 884 are set to enter negotiations on their Local-specific issues.

Once the Local-specific agreements are complete, IATSE is set to enter its general negotiations, where hot-button issues like wages, working conditions, pension and health contributions and AI will be addressed. Those talks are currently scheduled to begin on April 29.

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