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SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland was the highest paid among the Hollywood union leaders and the ninth highest-paid labor official in the country last year. The National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, who helped lead the actors union through a historic 118-day strike last year, earned a…

IATSE has taken a swipe at Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, J.D. Vance, for the stage setup on his latest campaign stop. “Here’s why you should hire union stagehands and stage designers,” the below-the-line crew union wrote in an X post on Tuesday, alongside the image of Vance giving a…

Cathy Repola is stepping down as the National Executive Director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Serving in her current role since 2016, her 32-year tenure at IATSE Local 700 will be finished at the end of January 2025, she announced Monday. "Working for the Guild has been an extremely…

It was getting a little too close to the deadline for comfort, but the Teamsters and the studios have a deal. After a long final sprint of talks that had more than a few executives and labor leaders on edge, Teamsters Local 399 announced just before midnight Saturday that the Hollywood Basic Crafts…

IATSE has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, becoming the first Hollywood union to weigh in on the presidential election now that President Joe Biden has bowed out of the race. The union called Biden’s administration “the most pro-union administration in history” in a statement released on…

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. One year ago, Hollywood found itself in the midst a historic work stoppage, with two unions — the Writers Guild of America and…

Hollywood can breathe a sigh of relief. IATSE officially has a new three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, after members ratified the latest film and TV contracts by a comfortable margin. Despite some worries throughout the voting process that the artificial…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been nearly two weeks since IATSE reached a tentative agreement with the studios on a new film and TV contract, and the union is now ready to reveal the full contract to its members. The complete memorandum of agreements between IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television…

The Teamsters say they are willing to extend bargaining with the studios deeper into the month, but the AMPTP needs to step it up if they really want a deal. "Next week, we hope to see the AMPTP ready to sit back down at the table and be prepared to bargain and 'care' about the issues our members…

IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said Thursday that they have reached a tentative agreement on all issues for the Area Standards Agreement, the companion contract to the Basic Agreement that got its own tentative deal Tuesday night. The latest agreement between the…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with joint statement: With more than a month to go before IATSE’s current contracts expires, the union and the studios have come to a tentative agreement on a new deal. As fears of another Hot Labor Summer had Hollywood anxious, the successful negotiation news Tuesday evening…

As IATSE nears what is likely to be the final round of talks with the studios over a new three-year contract beginning Monday, safety is again one of the primary concerns of guild members. In December, a woman died in a car accident after a lengthy overnight shoot on Peacock’s upcoming series Hysteria…