Industry & Labor

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is advancing efforts to streamline film and television production in Los Angeles amid cries for further policymaker intervention on the issue of runaway production.

Visual Effects (VFX) workers for Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and movie franchise Avatar have voted overwhelmingly to approve their first collective bargaining agreements since unionizing in 2023, the union announced Friday.

In a statement Wednesday, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) commended Part 3 of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Report on artificial intelligence (AI), questioned the attempted firing of Register of Copyrights and Director of the Copyright Office Shira Perlmutter, and opposed Federal Preemption of State AI Protections as recently proposed in the House Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Package.

Unions across nursing, education, mining and manufacturing industries, along with a manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE), today sued the Trump administration to reverse the illegal dismantling of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The delayed New York State budget has been signed and sealed by Gov. Kathy Hochul with expanded incentives for film and television production.

Last week the Trump Administration released President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 “Skinny” Budget Request, which called for eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

Just a day after Donald Trump revealed his plan to impose 100% tariffs on “any and all” films produced in “foreign lands,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he wants to collaborate with the president to create a $7.5 billion federal tax incentive to help the film industry.

IATSE continues to pursue all policy measures that can be implemented to return and maintain U.S. film and television jobs, while not disadvantaging our Canadian members.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in case brought by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) blocking the Trump administration’s executive order that illegally stripped thousands of federal workers of their collective bargaining rights:

The L.A. City Council on Tuesday passed a motion that reduces “onerous regulations and permitting” as well as other “unnecessary fees, inconsistent safety requirements.”

Congress needs to hear from you as it makes decisions about next year’s funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)!

The California Senate’s Revenue and Taxation Committee on Wednesday voted out of committee a bill aimed at expanding and retooling the state’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program.