A complete summary of the tentative agreement will be released to members in a few days.

Hollywood's drivers, chef assistants, location managers, and animal wranglers want a fair deal ahead of their contract expiring on July 31.

The crafts union is scheduling more Basic Agreement talks as early as next week, but the clock is ticking before the July 31 deadline, and things got a bit more complicated.

Basic Agreement talks are set to begin again on Monday, June 3 and run through Wednesday, June 5.

The California EDD threatened to end its use by filmmakers, but the government agency seemed to do a 180 after Hollywood unions voiced their concerns.

Unlike other Hollywood unions, IATSE members never got a chance to review priorities before the negotiating committee went to the bargaining table. A petition demands more transparency.

A disruption of the industry led sales agents to rethink how they package films and what they bring to the Marché du Film.

Now the real fight begins, with IATSE tentatively scheduled to restart general negotiations April 29 to run through May 16.

There’s reason for optimism, but the AMPTP and IATSE still have to negotiate the biggest sticking points to avoid a summer strike.

It joins Local 600 (cinematographers) and Local 729 (set painters) in this week's IATSE deals with the AMPTP.

The first of the crafts union's 13 West Coast locals started talks specific to cinematographers this week. The Art Directors Guild is up next.

It's the decline of peak TV, it's production logjams, it's post-strike doldrums, but they all mean the same thing: "We're all in 100 percent survival mode" as everyone from lighting designers to editors hope that things will get better.