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DIGITAL AGREEMENT As motion picture and television production moved into the digital age, Alliance leaders negotiated the Digital Supplement to the Producer IATSE Basic Agreement in 2001. This secured IATSE’s jurisdiction in digital work, especially in the area of television. NATIONAL AGREEMENTS MULTIPLY All of these contracts and many others made a profound difference. In 1994, IATSE had two national agreements — the Pink Contract for traveling members, and the West Coast Basic Agreement covering the West Coast Studio Locals. In 2003, there were more than 600 signatories to a variety of national agreements such as the Low Budget Agreement, Commercial Agreements, the Canadian Pink Contract, Area Standards Agreement, and the Digital Agreement. Motivated by a need to become more competitive in the marketplace, these agreements covering motion pictures, legitimate theatres, tradeshows and television venues, not only increased IATSE membership, but added employers that historically had been non-union. CANADIAN AFFILIATIONS For years, the presence of an independent union, the Association of Canadian Film Craftpeople (ACFC), made it harder for Canadian IATSE members to achieve gains at the bargaining table in the area of motion picture and television production. Using classic divide-and-conquer tactics, employers managed to suppress wages and limit contractual improvements by either using or threatening to use an alternative workforce. All that changed in 1996 on two fronts. Locals 63, 295 and 300 waged a successful organizing drive that resulted in the end of the ACFC contingent operating in their jurisdiction. Members of the ACFC chose to dissolve the Prairie Region of their organization in favor of joining any of the three IATSE local unions. At the same time, under the leadership of then-Business Agent James B. Wood, Local 873 concluded amicable negotiations with an agreement to absorb ACFC Toronto, with its members all joining IATSE Local 873. USA829 REAFFILIATES After eighty-one years, USA829 rejoined the IATSE in 1999. USA829’s membership voted, by a ninety-nine percent majority, to reaffiliate with IATSE. USA829 was founded with twenty members on September 11, 1895, and was originally known as the Protective Alliance of Scenic Painters of America. Initially affiliated with the IA, the Local lost its jurisdiction to the Painters in 1918. However, finding themselves negotiating with many of the same employers as IATSE, it was only natural that USA members would wish to reaffiliate. Comprised of skilled artisans and designers in the entertainment industry and sharing common goals with IATSE production Locals, USA829 seamlessly adjusted to its reaffiliation. The vision exhibited by both USA829 and the IATSE General Executive Board, in agreeing to the reunion, has worked to the benefit of both. In the first three years after its reaffiliation, USA829 benefited from the strength of IATSE in negotiations with the League, LORT, the AMPTP and other employers. The Alliance gained approximately 3,000 new members possessing artistic and creative skills that cut across all segments of the entertainment industry. LOCAL UNION MERGERS In May 1996, former IATSE camera Locals 644, 666 and 659 joined forces to become Local 600, with camera jurisdiction 72
throughout the entire United States, maintaining regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Orlando. Like all major changes, the move had its skeptics, but it quickly became apparent that the benefits of a unified camera Local far outweighed the disruption of the merger. Members of the newly constituted Local 600 experienced the benefits that flowed from consolidation: increased bargaining strength, a stronger single benefit plan, and the economic gains of a unitary financial structure and amalgamated staff. In Canada, camera Locals 667 and 669 made comparable arrangements allowing for nationwide free-flow work for the members, and shared retirement and health plans. Similarly, the East and West Coast Motion Picture Editors Locals (776 and 771, respectively) joined together to become the nationwide Local 700, enjoying gains comparable to those of the camera Locals. Throughout the 1990s and beyond, many Locals merged to leverage size and strength in support of common goals and shared interests among affiliated/related crafts. A prime example took place in 2002, when South Florida Locals 316, 545, 623, 646, 827 and 853 merged to create Local 500. This unification added power to organizing efforts, strengthened members’ benefit funds and facilitated a free flow of the work force. 73
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Matthew D. Loeb
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PRESIDENT MATTHEW D. LOEB reflectio
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The year is 1893. Grover Cleveland
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THE LEGACY OF LEE HART Lee Hart is
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order its members to withdraw from
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THE FIRST JURISDICTIONAL BATTLES Me
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THE MOVING PICTURES When moving pic
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at West End Park. The Holland broth
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The city became an open battlegroun
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never seen before. Steps, ledges an
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