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IATSE President Matthew Loeb Says Guild Is Willing To Strike, If Needed: “Folks Are Fed Up…Nothing Is Off The Table”
IATSE President Matthew Loeb did not mince words today when asked if his local unions were willing to strike if this spring’s contract negotiations with the AMPTP did not go well. “Noth…
IATSE President Matthew Loeb did not mince words today when asked if his local unions were willing to strike if this spring’s contract negotiations with the AMPTP did not go well. And I don’t know what to call it, if it’s a post-Covid wake of dissatisfaction, but people are ready to fight and the studios would be ill advised to think that they’ve weakened us to the point that we can’t,” he said. WGA West President Meredith Stiehm said that, every time her guild broached the subject of AI during last year’s negotiations, the studios tried to avoid specifics because they feared compromising their ability to use the technology in the future.
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