Practically half of IATSE‘s west coast studio locals have now struck tentative offers with the AMPTP.
This week, the Movement Image Studio Grips (Native 80) and the Make-Up Artists and Hairstylists Guild (Native 706) each finalized negotiations with the studios, Deadline has confirmed.
They’re now among the many six out of 13 locals which might be bringing their offers to members for ratification.
Native 700, the Movement Image Editors Guild, was anticipated to wrap talks as nicely, however after already including an extra day to its schedule this week, management determined to increase negotiations into subsequent week.
“After concluding one other full day of bargaining at the moment, we made vital progress, however there have been nonetheless a number of sophisticated proposals that require quite a lot of consideration,” Native 700 management wrote in a memo to its members Thursday evening.
“Due to this fact, our committee determined it’s in the perfect curiosity of our membership that we not rush by means of the method and guarantee there’s enough time to guage and put together responses,” the assertion continued.
Deadline hears that Native 700 will restart bargaining with the AMPTP on Monday.
Native 706 negotiating committee
This wraps the second full week of local-specific bargaining and, up to now, issues have been shifting pretty shortly.
Earlier this week, Native 695 — which represents technicians throughout manufacturing sound, video help, video engineering and studio projection — additionally reached a tentative settlement.
These offers comply with the Cinematographers Guild (Native 600), the Set Painter & Signal-Writers (Native 729) and the Artwork Administrators Guild (Native 800), which all struck tentative offers final week with the AMPTP.
Negotiations kicked off March 4 with the management of IATSE, the Hollywood Teamsters and different crafts guilds assembly with the AMPTP for a number of days to debate well being and pension advantages, and provide proposals. Then there was per week of caucusing earlier than the primary of the 13 LA Locals sat down on the bargaining desk with the studios. To date, the AMPTP has not returned a counterproposal on basic points.
Subsequent week, Native 728 is anticipated to start negotiations as nicely. The IATSE locals are working underneath a brand new technique the place “two locals will negotiate concurrently at any given time” with the studios over the subsequent month.
The present contracts are set to finish July 31. Total, round 60,000 industry-related IATSE members are affected by the contracts.
