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  1. The Spring Issue of the 695 Quarterly is now available online. Go to: http://695quarterly.com/ The Quarterly is available to all; it’s not necessary to be a member to access it. Highlights of this issue include: Chris Munro’s account of recording Captain Phillips and Gravity, two very different films. Part 2 of Jim Tanenbaum’s guide to working P-Cap and MoCap projects. This second part deals with the recommended practices for recording sound. A recap of the award-winning teams recognized by CAS, BAFTA and the Academy Robert Maxwell’s account of the challenges of working The Walking Dead. And recollections of working with Jim Webb by Andy Rovins and Fred Schultz. David
  2. The IATSE is looking to organize a non-typical -for the IA- area of productions: live television sports broadcasts' crews. http://www.latimes.c...0,2843350.story Such broadcasts, when they are union, are typically IBEW or NABET/CWA.
  3. Not sure if this topic has ben discussed on this forum but I have to vent - I have been member of IATSE local 695 for the past 7 years. I have paid my quarterly dues on time and have worked hard to accrue my hours to be eligible for my insurance benefits. I recently received a letter from MPI Health Plan stating that as of January 1, 2013, participants will have to pay a premium for their dependents. "For Participants with 1 dependent, the premium is $25 per month, paid quarterly, semi-annually or annually." "For Participants with 2 or more dependents, the premium is $50 per month, paid quarterly, semi-annually or annually." So for someone like me who has two dependents I'm now asked to pay $50 a month (totalling $600/year). I thought the hard work of accruing the hours on union shows was enough to cover my family - apparently not. My biggest fear is that once we are used to paying for our dependents, the premiums are eventually going to be raised in the future. This is not what I was expecting when I joined the union and paid my expensive initiation fee along with my quarterly dues and accruing hours for benefits. Not sure how this deal benefits any of our members! Somene please tell me if I read this letter incorrectly.
  4. The IATSE International has announced they will mail ballots on June 15 so the membership may vote to ratify (or not ratify) the Memorandum of Agreement recently negotiated with the AMPTP. Local 695 has scheduled its quarterly meeting for Saturday, June 9, so the new agreement may be reviewed prior to receipt of the ballots. I had the privilege of attending many of the negotiating sessions in March and thought I might provide some useful perspective by an account of the events I witnessed. First, I should explain some of the limitations of this account: This was the first time I witnessed a negotiating session. I have no experience with the conduct of negotiations under Al DiTolla or Tom Short so, although I discussed historical issues with other participants, I bring little historical perspective to the task. With legal affairs of this sort, precedent is often an important component. Although I was present over several days, I was not there every day. Many of the caucus sessions were open to all in the delegation but there were also a few private caucus sessions attended only by Business Representatives and I was not privy to any of those. Moreover, there were also some private negotiations between Mathew Loeb (for the IATSE) and Carole Lombardini (for the AMPTP) and, obviously, I did not attend those. This is my own account; it has not been vetted or cleared by the Local. David
  5. The situation today is that our unions are losing their clout with producers: http://www.variety.c...le/VR1118050899
  6. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/media/hollywood-labor-fight-looms-as-money-for-benefits-wanes.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Hollywood Labor Fight Looms as Money for Benefits Wanes By Michael Cieply Published: November 27, 2011 LOS ANGELES -- Bitter disputes over health and pension payments to union members have created plenty of drama in states and cities this year. But do not look for a movie about it -- Hollywood will be too busy dealing with a labor crisis of its own. After three relatively peaceful years, the entertainment industry is bracing for a showdown next spring. At issue is an enormous projected shortfall in financing for some of the most jealously guarded perks in show business, the heavily gilded health and pension plans. No one is talking of a strike yet. In fact, no one with official standing is talking publicly. Leaders of the industry's craft and blue-collar unions and officials of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios and other production companies, have all declined to discuss what will happen when several contracts expire July 31. But in town hall meetings over the last two months, union leaders have told members that weak industry economics, a tough investment climate and, above all, sharp increases in health care outlays are expected to create a $500 million shortfall by 2015. "We're going to be asking for money, lots of it," Matthew Loeb, the president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.), told a gathering at the union's Local 80 here in late September. His union represents about 50,000 set designers, makeup artists, grips and other film workers. To put things in perspective, the contract that in 2008 settled a three-month strike by Hollywood's writers was estimated to include total pay and benefits increases of less than a third that amount over three years. A subsequent, hard-fought three-year deal with the Screen Actors Guild, with about 120,000 members, cost the companies only about $250 million. One person involved with the pension and health plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the situation, called the looming half-billion dollar shortfall "staggering." The workers represented under the stage employees' contracts have been known more for making deals than picking fights. In years past, the union might have been at the bargaining table a year before the contract deadline; this time talks may not start until spring. The last full-blown craft strikes occurred more than a half-century ago, and involved a different configuration of unions; Hollywood's Teamsters, the other major union headed for a 2012 showdown, have not staged a major strike since 1988. But the current situation is volatile, partly because the Teamsters and some allied unions who share health and pension plans with I.A.T.S.E. aligned the expiration of their contracts with those of the larger theatrical workers alliance by shortening their last contract cycle to two years. This time, those unions are expected to bargain jointly on health and pension issues. A walkout would instantly stop film and television production in the Los Angeles area, and would affect production in New York and elsewhere, because editors, camera crews and some others are represented on a national basis. Hollywood's guilds largely resolved their health and pension problems, at least for now, in several agreements over the last year or two. But the craft workers and other film laborers got caught in a whipsaw that involved the financial markets, changes to federal health care law, and some features that are peculiar to the financing and benefit structure of their plans. In some ways, Hollywood's blue-collar health plans are more generous than those covering actors, writers and directors, who are usually regarded as being higher in the pecking order. At the gathering in September at Local 80, John Garner, a health care consultant with Levey, Garner & Isaacs, told I.A.T.S.E. members their plans matched or exceeded those of the guilds and others in deductibles, office visit co-pays, member contributions and other measures. One chart showed that entertainment industry workers pay just $300 as a median per person deductible for services from a preferred provider group. But those in the plan covering craft workers and Teamsters pay no deductible for the same services. Such generous coverage has come at a cost. The craft workers contribute their residuals payments from the rebroadcast of films on television and elsewhere to their benefits plans, while guild members typically receive the residuals as cash. At the same time, the blue-collar workers for years have been draining an enormous cash reserve in their own plans -- once enough to finance 30 months of benefits -- to meet outlays that have increased as the population has aged and more sophisticated medicine has raised costs. But what advisers had said was a surplus in the reserve is almost spent. Investments never quite recovered from the market collapse of 2008. Hollywood's residuals payments flattened as the DVD boom ended. Meanwhile, federal health care legislation required plans to cover children to the age of 26, and eliminated lifetime coverage maximums. It added up to what David Wescoe, the executive administrative director for the health and pension plans for the craft and blue-collar unions, told union members was "a very dicey picture for the next three-year cycle." Speaking at Local 80, he put the pension financing shortage at $190 million. Increased health expenses, he said, would require an additional $180 million to stay even with current benefits. About $75 million would be needed to keep the reserves at a safe level of six to eight months. And falling contributions, if industry economics remain soft, will also hurt. To some extent, the size of the shortfall may be affected by the decisions of the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on a challenge to the federal health care plan in March. "It's in their hands," read the legend of a photo of the justices in Mr. Wescoe's presentation in September. But even if the court were to overturn the new law, something must give when the companies and unions meet. "To leave it the way it is today, we need half a billion dollars," Mr. Loeb said. That reporter is talking about a presentation that was made at one of the "town hall" meetings that were conducted in LA and others places. http://www.iatse-intl.org/news/videos-mpi.html watch it now before they take it down How do the college students (associations) and teachers (unions) in Ca. ask for lower rates? They have one day warning strikes well in advance of negotiations to show how strong they are. Who has sand in their pussy?
  7. Just joined Toronto's IATSE 873 Union and am now calling in my availability everyday via their automated phone system. I'm wondering what else I can do to get that 'first call' happen sooner? (Other than general Toronto FIlm Industry networking on Indie sets). Should I be calling up people from current shows seeing if there's a spot or just keep calling in my status and pray for rain? Thanks. Dennis Nicholson
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