New Area Standards Agreement Ratified

Los Angeles, Sept. 5 – The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced […]
SIGGRAPH 2012: Representatives and Members Talk Benefits For VFX Workers

This August in Los Angeles, the IATSE had a booth for the second year in a row at SIGGRAPH, the annual conference on computer graphics. Attended by tens of thousands […]
“Daily Show” Ratifies First Collective Bargaining Agreement with IATSE

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — IATSE is pleased to announce that technical employees of “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart have unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The contract […]
IATSE Locals Unanimously Ratify New Hollywood Basic Agreement

Los Angeles, July 3 – The 14 Hollywood-based locals representing over 38,000 members of the IATSE working in motion picture and television production have ratified the new Hollywood Basic Agreement […]
IATSE Organizes “Ready for Love”

On Thursday, June 29, the IATSE alerted the studio facility where the non-union dating show “Ready for Love” had rented a sound stage, that a picket line would be forming […]
IATSE Investigating Long Hours on “Liz and Dick” Production

Los Angeles, June 20 – In response to press queries, Mike Miller, Division Director of Motion Picture and Television Production for the IATSE, issued the following statement today: “The IATSE […]
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 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 […]