Suzsplaining: The IATSE Film/Television Strike Authorization

Well, Here We Are

On October 5th, 2021, approximately 60,000 film and television crew members, as part of their labor union IATSE, authorized a labor strike in the event that contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down. A strike date was set but the strike never came as IATSE reached a tentative deal with the industry this past weekend. Why did IATSE authorize a strike in the first place? Is the tentative deal a good one? And what happens next? Together Hannah & Suzanne, two people very much NOT members of IATSE, try and break it down.
Links mentioned in the episode: tentative IATSE agreement, fact sheet from IATSE on the tentative agreement, Hollywood Reporter article referenced in the introduction.
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