As film and TV production slowly resumes, testing of crews for COVID-19 “varies wildly from company to company,” said Thom Davis, business manager of IATSE Grips Local 80. Davis, who is …
Workplace Safety
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As Hollywood producers continue to seek union approval to resume production, the Producers Guild of America has unveiled its latest health and safety guidelines for production amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 56-page …
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Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP are “very close to an agreed upon framework for a safe return to work,” an industry source tells Deadline. Their ongoing negotiations cover a wide range of …
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Netflix will deliver more unexplained disappearances, tragic events and bizarre occurrences starting in the fall. The streamer has set an October 19 launch date for the remaining six episodes of Unsolved Mysteries’ first …
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SAG-AFTRA, the IATSE, The Recording Academy and 9 additional entertainment industry organizations on Tuesday sent a letter to President Trump asking for his administration’s help to reform the Pandemic Unemployment
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From The National Executive Director
Cathy Repola: We Have Two Epidemics Today
by Cathy Repolaby Cathy RepolaThere are two epidemics today. One is COVID-19, and the need it has created to help our members to ultimately overcome it and return to work safely. The other is …
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According to Deadline Hollywood, Vancouver is open for business. Deadline reports that the impasse between US studios and the British Columbia unions over safety protocols is starting to get resolved, with …
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Film and television production “is finally getting ready to start back up,” IATSE Grips Local 80 business manager Thom Davis said in his latest update on the industry’s efforts for a safe return to …
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GuildMPEG DiversityWeb Exclusives
In MPEG’s Town Hall on Zoom, Cathy Repola Talks Pandemic and Racism
“We can no longer stand by and remain silent.”
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One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. …