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Motion Picture Editors Guild Warns Free Health Insurance Extensions to End as Contributions to Industry Plans Drop
The Motion Picture Editors Guild has warned members that free health insurance extensions will end as a drop in plan contributions takes a toll.
Discovery, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal and other entertainment giants make regular contributions to the MPI plan based on the total number of hours worked by IATSE members. Acknowledging the “extreme hardships so many [workers] are continuing to face due to insufficient employment opportunities,” the memo from the Editors Guild (which with roughly 9,000 members is the second largest of the 13 IATSE Locals that work under the Basic Agreement) explains as background that the directors “have been able to offer premium-free COBRA for many months” and that two more benefit periods are already approved (those beginning Aug. 1 and Sept. 1) “which will incur additional costs.” You can find information about this program here: https://mptf.com/health-insurance/ One hardship initiative that was approved last week was to allow participants to withdraw money from their Individual Account Plans (IAP) for a second time, under certain conditions.
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