The Teamsters are sending a shot throughout the bow, warning that they continue to be “far aside” in talks with the studios with lower than three weeks to go earlier than their contract expires.
Teamsters Native 399 and the opposite Fundamental Crafts unions have spent 4 weeks in negotiations with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, and have additional discussions set by means of July 19.
In an replace on Friday night time, the union stated “we nonetheless stay far aside on our core priorities,” and warned that the contract wouldn’t be prolonged past the July 31 expiration.
The Teamsters union is looking for a large wage improve — considerably above the 7% first-year improve received final month by the Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Staff. The union can be making an attempt to crack down on subcontracting, which might assist increase demand for union drivers throughout a slack time within the Hollywood economic system.
Within the replace, the union stated its members are “among the lowest paid in manufacturing.”
“We’ve got been extraordinarily clear on the reasonableness of what we have now dropped at the desk,” the union stated. “Lots of our proposals would value the employers little or no, and in some circumstances no cash, however could be enormous wins for our members.”
Teamsters Native 399 — the union’s “Hollywood” native — represents about 6,500 drivers, animal wranglers, location managers, and different crafts. The union bargains alongside 4 smaller unions, collectively representing 8,000 staff.
The union informed members that Sean O’Brien, the union’s basic president, and Lindsay Dougherty, the chief of Native 399, would maintain a name with rank-and-file members on Sunday morning. The union will situation an replace afterwards.
IATSE is predicted to ratify its contract subsequent week. The downturn within the leisure economic system was a key theme of these talks, and lots of have been cautious {that a} strike would make a foul state of affairs worse.
