That engagement will be key to strengthening the position of IATSE President Matthew Loeb when he returns to the negotiation table with a strike authorization in his back pocket. What matters even more than the percentage of members who vote ‘yes’ is the percentage of the overall membership who chooses to vote. Authorization is inevitable, but it’s turnout that mattersĪccording to a half-dozen sources inside IATSE locals’ leadership who spoke on background, strike authorization is expected to win by a large percentage.
Three-quarters of members in each local needed to vote in favor of the strike authorization in order to have that local’s delegates vote “yes” at the national level – benchmarks the union crossed with an unprecedented turnout and near-unanimous solidarity.īelow, find IndieWire’s earlier reporting, published on October 2, on what will unfold in the coming weeks in light of the yes vote. Members of each local voted in separate, simultaneous elections as part of a national delegate vote.
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'House of the Dragon': Everything You Need to Know About HBO's Upcoming Series IATSE Members Approve Contracts: The Strike Threat Is Over, but Labor Strife Won't Go AwayĪs IATSE Votes on Contract Ratification, Union Members Wrestle with the Lessons of 'Rust'Įmmy Predictions: Best Limited Series - Was It 'The Queen's Gambit' All Along? Hanging in the balance is a large portion of production that stands to grind to a halt at Loeb’s word - no additional vote is necessary. While neither side wants a strike, with the a vote overwhelmingly in support of one, Loeb now has a powerful tool to coax further concessions out of the studios. Negotiations between IATSE and the AMPTP reached an impasse last month, prompting Loeb to call the vote. The results give IATSE President Matthew Loeb the power to call a strike for IATSE members working under two expired contracts: the Hollywood Basic Agreement, which covers the approximately 40,000 to 45,000 members of 13 West Coast locals, and the Area Standards Agreement, which covers some 10,000 to 15,000 members employed on productions in places like Georgia, New Mexico, and Louisiana. But production won’t grind to a halt, at least not yet. Ninety-eight percent of all votes cast were in favor of a strike, and 90 percent of all members turned out to vote. Updated, October 4: IATSE members have overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike authorization, the union announced Monday morning.
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