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Members of the Directors Guild of Canada in British Columbia have voted overwhelmingly – 89.5% to 10.5% – to ratify a new three-year film and TV contract with the AMPTP and the Canadian Media Producers Association-BC. The guild said Thursday that 64% of eligible members and permittees took part in the vote “to make…

IATSE members employed at four Fox TV stations in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., have ratified a new three-year contract, bringing to a close one of the longest-running contract negotiations of all time. Union officials say that the tentative agreement, which was reached in April, followed 11 years of…

UPDATED, 5:10 PM: Just about a year ago, the Walt Disney Co. announced plans to move most Southern California-based jobs not fully dedicated to Disneyland in its Parks, Experiences and Products Division to a new regional facility in Central Florida. What a difference a year makes. Today, after months of less-than-ideal…

The Directors Guild of Canada BC has released the terms of a tentative agreement that ended the recent labor dispute in British Columbia. The new three-year deal with the AMPTP and Canadian Media Producers Association includes what the guild says are "significant gains" for the lowest paid and entry level workers, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Gearing up for a potential strike on Monday, more than 300 Vox Media employees have signed an angry letter to their boss, CEO Jim Bankoff. They were pandemic-shaming him for asking for cost-of-living and 401(K) roll-backs in the media conglomerate’s ongoing contract talks with the WGA East. “We’re…

A small group of freelance post-production coordinators in New York have voted unanimously to join the Communications Workers of America in NLRB-supervised elections at eight separate companies, including Apple Studios, Netflix Productions, Universal Television, CBS Studios, Showtime, HBO, Turner and Disney…

The Directors Guild of Canada BC has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract covering films and TV shows shot in British Columbia. "As of this afternoon, the DGC BC has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP and the Canadian Media Producers Association," the guild said in a statement. "We are finalizing…

Film and TV music supervisors, fed up with deteriorating working conditions and stagnant wages, want to unionize with IATSE, which is calling on the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers to voluntarily recognize them after a large majority signed authorization cards to join the union. IATSE, however, said…

Shelby Scott, the former president of AFTRA who helped spearhead the 2012 merger of SAG and AFTRA, has died. She was 86. Scott, a longtime television news broadcaster, served as AFTRA's national president from 1993-2001. She was a member of the "Group for One Union" of SAG and AFTRA leaders who spearheaded the 2012…

Production workers at The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! have filed to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, and begin collective bargaining for their first union contract. "Together, they boast more than 750 years of industry experience in animation," the guild said. "It’s time they receive the benefits…

Paul F. Dean Jr. has been elected 13th international vice president of IATSE in a unanimous vote of the union's general executive board. Dean, who is the theatrical business manager of IATSE Local One in New York, succeeds James J. Claffey Jr., former president of Local One, who stepped down from IATSE's executive…

Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians has issued a "Do Not Work" order against Distinguished Concerts International New York, labeling it an "unfair employer." The move comes more than two years after DCINY's orchestra formed a union with Local 802, though the parties have yet to reach an agreement on a…