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IATSE and AMPTP Negotiate New Three-Year Deal, Preventing Industry-Wide TV/Film Strike — Get Details - TVLine
Oct 17, 2021 54 secs

An agreement between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) was reached Saturday, preventing the union’s industry-wide TV and film strike that was formerly set to begin Monday, our sister site Deadline first reported.

The new three-year contract — which will still need to be ratified by the union’s members — comes mere hours before the the union’s midnight Sunday deadline, which was imposed by IATSE president Matthew Loeb.

“Everything achieved was because you, the members, stood up and gave us the power to change the course of these negotiations,” Loeb and the leaders of the union’s 13 Hollywood production locals said in a statement.

Some 60,000 IATSE members were planning to engage in the strike action that would’ve shut down TV and film productions in the U.S

“The explosion of streaming combined with the pandemic has elevated and aggravated working conditions, bringing 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers covered by these contracts to a breaking point,” IATSE said in a statement, as the vote to strike if needed loomed

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