IATSE and Broadway League Reach New Three-Year Deal

According to published reports, Local One, The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC (IATSE), has entered into a new three year contract with the Broadway League. The new contract, which went into effect on January 1, 2010 and will be valid through December 31, 2010, applies to all IATSE personnel who travel with live entertainment productions.  

An IATSE press statement states that the new contract "incorporates meaningful economic improvements in wages, conditions and benefits for workers in full and modified pink contracts and creates new conditions for qualifying short Engagement Tours. Most notably, there is a significant increase in the contribution rate to the health plan during the term of the contract. Additional contributions will also be made to the Annuity Plan to bolster retirement benefits."

Says IATSE President Matthew Loeb, "Protecting the health plans for members was a major priority in these negotiations. We achieved that goal which is a cornerstone in providing security to those who travel under the road agreement."

Additional terms of the new contract include "compensation for use of a live performance in other media (such as television). A number of changes were also agreed upon that will, for the first time, provide traditional contract protections such as scope and recognition, union security, grievance and arbitration and minimum conditions provisions."

For 123 years, Local One www.iatselocalone.org has been the premiere stagecraft union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees representing 3,000 property persons, stage and studio electricians, set carpenters, sound designers, audio technicians, moving-light operators, riggers and special effects people in New York.