Visual Effects Meeting: West Coast

The first Sunday of June, the IATSE filled the conference room of the International Cinematographer’s Guild with VFX artists, supervisors, coordinators, bloggers and even a shop owner interested in speaking […]
IATSE Strike Successful; secures contract with ‘Great Escape’

Los Angeles — After declaring the producers of the TNT competition action/adventure reality series “The Great Escape” unfair this morning, and striking the production, the IATSE and Profiles Television Productions […]
IATSE Local 357 & Stratford Shakespeare Festival Sign First Agreement for Audience Development Department

STRATFORD, ON, June 6 – On July 15, 2011, Local 357 certified the 53 members of the audience development department at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, who work in […]
IA Restructures Internal Divisions

New York — The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has made some important changes to its Divisional structure to go into effect June 4, 2012. Among the changes is […]
Kravis Center Reneges on Agreement and Commits New Unfair Labor Practices

New York, May 17 – The reckless disregard of federal labor law continues in West Palm Beach, Fl. The Kravis Center’s Chief Executive Officer, Judith A. Mitchell, and International President […]
Local 56 Certifies City of Chateauguay

MONTREAL, QC, May 8 – IATSE Local 56 successfully certified the stagehands working for the City of Chateauguay, a suburb of Montreal. The City of Chateauguay operates two municipal theatres; […]
IATSE Organizes “Playdate”

On April 19th, the IATSE visited the set of “Playdate,” a 15-day webisode produced by Decoupage Productions, a company out of NY. Multiple crew members had called in this non-union […]
IATSE, AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement

Los Angeles, Apr. 13 – After negotiations on the new Hollywood Basic Agreement restarted yesterday, a tentative agreement has been reached. The following is the statement released by International President […]
IATSE President Loeb Lauds SAG-AFTRA Merger

International President Matthew D. Loeb has sent congratulatory messages to SAG President Ken Howard and AFTRA President Roberta Reardon, on the completed merger of the two guilds. Upon hearing the […]
Joint IATSE, AMPTP Statement

Los Angeles, CA — The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have not […]