SAG-AFTRA Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Strike Against Video Game Industry
26 Sep 2023SAG-AFTRA members have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against 10 of the major video game companies. The vote was 98.32% in favor. A total of 34,687 members cast ballots, representing a voting 27.47% of eligible voters. The guild’s last strike against the gaming companies, in 2016-17, lasted 183 days. The guild, meanwhile, has been on strike against the film and TV industry since July 14.-
Writers Guild Strike to End Wednesday: Leadership Votes to Conclude Historic Work Stoppage
26 Sep 2023The 148-day writers’ strike, the second longest in Writers Guild of America history, will conclude on 12:01 am PT Wednesday thanks to a vote from guild leadership that officially authorized some 11,500 members to return to work. Tasks that for months were prohibited by strike rules — pitching, selling scripts, taking meetings, responding to notes — will then be sanctioned, while writers’ rooms can reconvene. -
WGA, AMPTP Reach Historic Contract Agreement to End 146-Day Writers Strike
25 Sep 2023Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The WGA and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has taken a heavy toll across the content industry. 
Be A Director of Change with “Lights, Camera, Plastic?”
20 Sep 2023“Lights, Camera, Plastic?” is a campaign with the goal of eliminating single-use plastics on screen. Experts agree that film and television subliminally dictate what is and isn’t acceptable to our collective society. Similar to the anti-smoking movement we can reduce societal dependency on single-use plastics by removing them from our beloved films and television shows.-
The Rebel Alliance: SAG and the WGA Owe Other Unions a Debt. How Will They Repay It?
20 Sep 2023Members of IATSE, as well their brethren in the Teamsters, have become fixtures on New York and Los Angeles picket lines, fighting a war that isn’t theirs. -
2023 NYC Labor Day Parade
13 Sep 2023Local 600 members, along with their family and friends, marched in the 2023 NYC Labor Day Parade.
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Marvel Studios VFX Workers Vote Unanimously To Unionize With IATSE
13 Sep 2023Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios and seven of its subsidiaries have voted 32-0 to unionize with IATSE in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. The union called the unanimous vote an “historic first” for the industry’s VFX workforce. -
Still Photographer Training in Los Angeles
11 Sep 2023The National Training Committee hosted a Still Photographer Training in Los Angeles on September 9 and 10.
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2023 New Mexico Film Expo
29 Aug 2023On Sunday, August 27, Local 600 participated at the 2023 New Mexico Film Expo in Albuquerque, NM.
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2023 NYC "We are Family" Picnic
29 Aug 2023Local 600 members, families, and four legged members of the family, got together in Prospect Park, Brooklyn for a day of food, games, raffles, ice cream, face art, and more on Sunday, August 27.
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VFX Workers At Walt Disney Pictures Seek Unionization With IATSE
28 Aug 2023Visual effects workers at Walt Disney Pictures are seeking to unionize with IATSE, which says that a supermajority of the 18 in-house VFX crewmembers employed there have signed cards with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to be represented by the union. Walt Disney Pictures is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios. -
A Wave of Solidarity
23 Aug 2023The economic and psychological impact of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have simultaneously rocked and rallied Local 600 brothers and sisters.
