Exclusive: A documentary now in production will examine the Ups workforce and its union, even as the package shipping company faces the possibility of a strike that could impact the entire U.S. economy.
Who Moves America (working title), directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Yael Bridge, began filming in fall 2022 is expected to wrap by summer 2024 in time to premiere at fall festivals next year.
“With a focus on the future of work, the increasing popularity of unions and rate of work stoppages, and the importance of the logistics industry and supply chain to daily life in the U.S., the film follows Ups workers from across the country,” including San Diego, Louisville, Ky, Brooklyn, NY, and Washington D.C., according to a release about the documentary. “The film also follows high-profile figures including Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who...
Who Moves America (working title), directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Yael Bridge, began filming in fall 2022 is expected to wrap by summer 2024 in time to premiere at fall festivals next year.
“With a focus on the future of work, the increasing popularity of unions and rate of work stoppages, and the importance of the logistics industry and supply chain to daily life in the U.S., the film follows Ups workers from across the country,” including San Diego, Louisville, Ky, Brooklyn, NY, and Washington D.C., according to a release about the documentary. “The film also follows high-profile figures including Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who...
- 7/6/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: “There are folks that are working in the motion picture industry that are not making enough money to have a sustainable life, to be able to buy a home — which is just insane,” says Hollywood Teamsters leader Lindsay Dougherty of the hard economic realities her members and other Hollywood unions like the Writers Guild of America are being squeezed by.
It should be no great revelation that when Teamsters talk, Hollywood may want to pay close attention.
“Insane especially when we’re all working for employers that have billions upon billions of profits and projected profits in the future with the new model of streaming,” the union Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Motion Picture Division adds of the studios. “This is not something that the employers should be getting a break on by any means.”
The Disneys, Apples, Warner Bros, Netflixs and more might be angling for a break,...
It should be no great revelation that when Teamsters talk, Hollywood may want to pay close attention.
“Insane especially when we’re all working for employers that have billions upon billions of profits and projected profits in the future with the new model of streaming,” the union Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Motion Picture Division adds of the studios. “This is not something that the employers should be getting a break on by any means.”
The Disneys, Apples, Warner Bros, Netflixs and more might be angling for a break,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The current Writers Guild of America contract expires in just over 48 hours, and the scribes and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are taking it down to the wire in hopes of reaching an agreement.
After talks Saturday in the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks offices, the two sides have scheduled further negotiations for Sunday in hopes of sealing a deal to avert a potentially devastating strike next week. While nothing has been inked in, Monday talks have also been penciled in if necessary, I hear.
With a 97.85% strike-authorization mandate from members after a vote earlier this month, the WGA leadership could order pencils down and pickets up at 12:01 a.m. Pt on May 2 after the present contract lapses. The last WGA strike in 2007-2008 lasted 100 days and has had effects that still ripple through the industry – and that was before the streamers were in the game.
If...
After talks Saturday in the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks offices, the two sides have scheduled further negotiations for Sunday in hopes of sealing a deal to avert a potentially devastating strike next week. While nothing has been inked in, Monday talks have also been penciled in if necessary, I hear.
With a 97.85% strike-authorization mandate from members after a vote earlier this month, the WGA leadership could order pencils down and pickets up at 12:01 a.m. Pt on May 2 after the present contract lapses. The last WGA strike in 2007-2008 lasted 100 days and has had effects that still ripple through the industry – and that was before the streamers were in the game.
If...
- 4/30/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Teamsters leaders, saying their members “do not cross picket lines,” have joined the chorus of unions supporting the WGA in its ongoing negotiations for a new film and TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Those talks are now in their final week, and a strike, if it comes to that, could come as early as next Tuesday.
“The Teamsters stand with WGA members in their fight for a fair contract,” Teamsters leaders Sean O’Brien and Lindsay Dougherty said in a joint statement Wednesday. “The studios owe their success to these workers. They deserve to be paid fairly and respected for their labor.”
O’Brien is the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Dougherty is secretary-treasurer of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 and director of the Teamsters Motion Picture Division.
“These multibillion-dollar corporations – including Amazon, Netflix, Disney, and Apple – invest in highly paid executives and lavish productions,...
“The Teamsters stand with WGA members in their fight for a fair contract,” Teamsters leaders Sean O’Brien and Lindsay Dougherty said in a joint statement Wednesday. “The studios owe their success to these workers. They deserve to be paid fairly and respected for their labor.”
O’Brien is the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Dougherty is secretary-treasurer of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 and director of the Teamsters Motion Picture Division.
“These multibillion-dollar corporations – including Amazon, Netflix, Disney, and Apple – invest in highly paid executives and lavish productions,...
- 4/26/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Lindsay Dougherty will succeed Steve Dayan as leader of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, making her the first woman to ever hold the local’s top post.
Dayan announced today that he is retiring on April 30, and the local’s executive board has voted unanimously for Dougherty to serve out the remainder of his three-year term. Dayan has been the local’s secretary-treasurer and principal officer since 2013.
Dougherty, who is currently the local’s recording secretary, is one of the fastest-rising stars in Hollywood labor circles. In November, she was elected as one of four Western Region vice presidents of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on the slate of Ibt president-elect Sean O’Brien. Last month, he appointed her director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trades Division effective – the first woman to ever hold the post. That appointment is effective March 22.
She has also been Local 399’s chief negotiator...
Dayan announced today that he is retiring on April 30, and the local’s executive board has voted unanimously for Dougherty to serve out the remainder of his three-year term. Dayan has been the local’s secretary-treasurer and principal officer since 2013.
Dougherty, who is currently the local’s recording secretary, is one of the fastest-rising stars in Hollywood labor circles. In November, she was elected as one of four Western Region vice presidents of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on the slate of Ibt president-elect Sean O’Brien. Last month, he appointed her director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trades Division effective – the first woman to ever hold the post. That appointment is effective March 22.
She has also been Local 399’s chief negotiator...
- 3/13/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Production on Netflix’s Nailed It! Halloween was permanently suspended a day after crew members went on strike to secure a contract with IATSE. The walkout happened midway through filming the eight-episode Halloween arc of Nailed It!‘s seventh season.
The union had been picketing the show’s producers, Magical Elves, in the hope of bringing the company to the bargaining table. Instead, Magical Elves opted to stop production after four episodes. Following some back-and-forth between the indie production company and Netflix, the two sides agreed not to proceed with the additional four episodes. The crew was informed by Magical Elves that production had wrapped and its members were called in to collect their gear Tuesday afternoon.
“I know for sure that it’s shut down,” a union source told Deadline about Nailed It! Halloween! “They’d rather shut down than sign a union contract. They’re notoriously nonunion.
The union had been picketing the show’s producers, Magical Elves, in the hope of bringing the company to the bargaining table. Instead, Magical Elves opted to stop production after four episodes. Following some back-and-forth between the indie production company and Netflix, the two sides agreed not to proceed with the additional four episodes. The crew was informed by Magical Elves that production had wrapped and its members were called in to collect their gear Tuesday afternoon.
“I know for sure that it’s shut down,” a union source told Deadline about Nailed It! Halloween! “They’d rather shut down than sign a union contract. They’re notoriously nonunion.
- 3/3/2022
- by David Robb and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Leo Reed, former longtime secretary-treasurer of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, died Sunday of natural causes at his home. He was 83.
Reed, a former pro football player, served as Local 399’s top officer for 24 years, and as the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Motion Picture & Theatrical Trades Division for 20 years.
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the passing of secretary-treasurer emeritus Leo T. Reed,” said Steve Dayan, who succeeded Reed in the local’s top post in 2013. “Leo left us yesterday afternoon, however his impact on Teamsters Local 399 and the lives of our rank-and-file members both past and present will live on forever.
“As the longest-serving principal officer of Teamsters Local 399, he grew our local from near bankruptcy to the gold standard it is today. He prioritized organizing and negotiating strong contracts that would serve as the foundation for the benefits, wages and working...
Reed, a former pro football player, served as Local 399’s top officer for 24 years, and as the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Motion Picture & Theatrical Trades Division for 20 years.
“It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the passing of secretary-treasurer emeritus Leo T. Reed,” said Steve Dayan, who succeeded Reed in the local’s top post in 2013. “Leo left us yesterday afternoon, however his impact on Teamsters Local 399 and the lives of our rank-and-file members both past and present will live on forever.
“As the longest-serving principal officer of Teamsters Local 399, he grew our local from near bankruptcy to the gold standard it is today. He prioritized organizing and negotiating strong contracts that would serve as the foundation for the benefits, wages and working...
- 2/28/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Questions about the role newly elected Teamsters president Sean O’Brien played in a thuggish 2014 labor dispute on the Boston set of Top Chef are still dogging him, resurfacing recently in the run-up to his election last week.
O’Brien, president of Boston’s Teamsters Local 25, steadfastly has maintained that he was not responsible for arranging the picketing of the show that led to five of his members being arrested and indicted for attempted extortion in a picket-line incident in which racist, homophobic and misogynistic taunts and threats of violence were hurled at members of the show’s cast and crew.
As first reported by Deadline, about a dozen members of Local 25 had set up a picket line on June 10, 2014, outside the Steel & Rye restaurant in the Boston suburb of Milton, where the show was filming after having been chased out of Boston by the Teamsters, who wanted the producers to...
O’Brien, president of Boston’s Teamsters Local 25, steadfastly has maintained that he was not responsible for arranging the picketing of the show that led to five of his members being arrested and indicted for attempted extortion in a picket-line incident in which racist, homophobic and misogynistic taunts and threats of violence were hurled at members of the show’s cast and crew.
As first reported by Deadline, about a dozen members of Local 25 had set up a picket line on June 10, 2014, outside the Steel & Rye restaurant in the Boston suburb of Milton, where the show was filming after having been chased out of Boston by the Teamsters, who wanted the producers to...
- 11/22/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Sean O’Brien has been elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and his slate of reform-minded Teamsters United running mates will lead the 1.3 million-member union for the next five years. O’Brien succeeds James P. Hoffa, the son of infamous Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who chose not to seek reelection after running the union since 1998.
O’Brien, a sharp critic of Hoffa, has vowed to get tougher at the bargaining table, saying during the campaign that “If we’re negotiating discounted contracts and we’re negotiating lousy deals, why would any member, anyone, want to join the Teamsters union?”
And for the first time ever, a member of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 will have a seat on the Teamsters’ General Executive Board. Lindsay Dougherty, Local 399’s recording secretary, business agent and organizer, and a member of O’Brien’s slate, has been elected as one of four Western Region vice presidents.
O’Brien, a sharp critic of Hoffa, has vowed to get tougher at the bargaining table, saying during the campaign that “If we’re negotiating discounted contracts and we’re negotiating lousy deals, why would any member, anyone, want to join the Teamsters union?”
And for the first time ever, a member of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 will have a seat on the Teamsters’ General Executive Board. Lindsay Dougherty, Local 399’s recording secretary, business agent and organizer, and a member of O’Brien’s slate, has been elected as one of four Western Region vice presidents.
- 11/19/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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