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IATSE, Other Entertainment Unions Produce Video in Support of Employee Free Choice Act |
Twenty IATSE members put their considerable production skills to work in helping to create a new online video called "Artists4WorkersChoice” which demonstrates the support of many in the entertainment industry for the Employee Free Choice Act - legislation currently pending in Congress that would make it easier for workers to join a union.
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IATSE on Strike Against Larry Levinson Productions |
 The IATSE has been engaged in a labor dispute with TV producer Larry
Levinson Productions (LLP) over unfair labor practices since crew
walked off the set earlier this spring. IATSE crews are protesting the
fact that Levinson refuses to pay prevailing wages and benefits to crew
members while reaping in huge profits from his company’s productions.
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Iatse And Amptp Agree On New Three-Year Area Standards Agreement |
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LOS ANGELES, April 17 -- 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 tentatively agreed on terms of a new three-year Area Standards Agreement. Terms affect about 8,000 IA members across the United States.
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IATSE Locals Unanimously Ratify New Hollywood Basic Agreement |
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March 20
Los Angeles – The 15 Hollywood-based locals representing over 35,000 members of the IATSE working in motion picture and television production have ratified the new Hollywood Basic Agreement with the AMPTP. The three year contract, which will go into effect August 1, 2009, was tentatively proposed last November, with drafting completed last month.
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Employee Free Choice Act as Stimulus for US Economy |
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(Truthout.org, Mar. 13)
Across the US, indebted businesses and consumers are struggling to make ends meet. The same holds for local and state governments. Fortunately, help is on the horizon.
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IATSE Joins Labor in Calling to Rebuild America with Good Jobs |
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 Labor unions march for Employee Free Choice Act
On Feb. 5, IATSE members and staff joined over 400 airport and sanitation workers, ironworkers, nurses, janitors, educators and others to march the 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the Federal Building in West LA to highlight the importance of passing the Employee Free Choice Act.
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IATSE Organizes Nasco Staffing Solutions |
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February 27
IATSE Local 891 has won a significant victory after a lengthy and extensive organizing campaign with Nasco Staffing Solutions.
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Hilda Solis Sworn In as US Labor Secretary |
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(VOANews.com, Mar. 13)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in former California representative Hilda Solis as head of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Labor Secretary Proposes Suspending Farm Rules |
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(NYT, Mar. 13)
Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced Friday that she would suspend regulations that the Bush administration introduced in December to make it easier and cheaper for agricultural employers to use foreign workers in temporary jobs.
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IATSE PAC Raises Over $11,500 |
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January 28
At it’s Mid-Winter General Executive Board meeting, the IATSE Political Action Committee raised over $11,500 at an event held at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel in Albuquerque, NM.
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