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Hollywood Basic Crafts Leaders Claim Studios Exhibiting “Lack of Urgency” in Ongoing Negotiations

Leaders from the union coalition that includes the Teamsters Local 399 and IBEW Local 40 said "the ball is now in the employers’ court to set the tone for our final month of negotiations."

In their latest update on ongoing negotiations with studios and streamers, leaders of the Hollywood Basic Crafts union coalition singled out an alleged “lack of urgency” on the employer side of the discussions. “At the conclusion of our scheduled dates for June, we want to make it clear that we are not interested in bargaining against ourselves,” Hollywood Basic Crafts chairperson Lindsay Dougherty and four other leaders said in a statement on Friday, after finishing up their second week of targeted negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. During the first week of talks, the two parties swapped initial proposals and the unions said they repeatedly stressed that they wanted to expand California’s film and television tax credit program amid Hollywood’s production slowdown.

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