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IATSE Organizes Original Internet Production Just Four Hours Before Strike Deadline

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MEMPHIS, Tn., Feb. 1 — With only four hours before a strike deadline, two locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (IATSE) and a low budget production set for initial release on the Internet signed a collective bargaining agreement that represents another significant step by the IATSE to organize content produced for cyberspace.

IATSE Local 600 International Cinematographers Guild and IATSE Local 492 Studio Mechanics of Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, with the assistance of IATSE Representative Scott Harbinson, signed a contract with the low budget production Lovely by Surprise at 3:00am CST January 26. The first-time agreement calls for retroactive benefits, reduced double time interval from 16 to 12 hours, housing guarantees, meal penalties, rest periods and other professional standards that the IATSE has worked to establish throughout the spectrum of low budget production.

John Hilsman represented IATSE Local 600 and Peter Kurland and Bob Hill represented IATSE Local 492 in this successful organizing effort. Lovely by Surprise, directed by Kirt Gunn, began production in Memphis January 16.

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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees or IATSE (full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada), is a labor union representing over 170,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live events, motion picture and television production, broadcast, and trade shows in the United States and Canada.

For more information please contact:
General: comms@iatse.net
Press: press@iatse.net

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