After reaching tentative agreements on new contracts with the studios late last month, IATSE has now released the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for both the pending new Basic Agreement and Area Standards Agreement, giving union members their first look at specific contract language they’ll be working under for the next three years. That is, if IATSE members choose to ratify the deals. With the MOAs now available, members in each of the 13 West Coast Locals and 23 Area Standards Locals will have between July 14-17 to vote to ratify each of the deals, and results of the votes will be revealed on July 18.
IATSE’s negotiating committee members are all unanimously recommending rank and file members vote in favor of the deals, and the union’s current contracts expire on July 31. Read the full MOAs for the Basic and ASA on each of their respective contract websites. “I encourage every eligible member to review these comprehensive documents and vote.
It’s my hope that members cast their ballots in numbers that reflect the spirit of engagement and participation as part of their union,” IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb said in a statement. For the last couple of weeks, IATSE members have been mulling over the summaries released by IATSE and sitting in on town hall meetings going over the deal points as hosted by each of the locals.
Wage increases have been in line with what was won by the other guilds last year, with 7 percent in the first year of the deal, fol.
