, told his members today that “we are slowly starting to see some of our members return to work as we continue to engage in discussions with the other guilds and unions and the AMPTP to develop industry-wide safety standards. At this time, the Business Agents are dealing with returning productions on a case-by-case basis.”
“The studios are starting to bring back people to work,” Dayan told Deadline. “We have drivers across country, as we speak, delivering equipment to locales. Right now, some of the productions that were shut down are trying to finish up. They shut down in the middle of episodes, turned off the lights and walked away.
He added: “We have the White Paper and we have the Safe Way Forward, but we also have collective bargaining agreements, and we have to bargain with the studios to understand what they expect from us, and what we expect from them.” “We have set up a uniform standard so that you can plug this protocol into a big production or a small production,” Dayan said. And that impacts the contracts the unions have with the companies. “These are the discussions. The unions are asking: ‘What are your concerns?’ And the companies are asking: ‘What are your concerns?’”
Super happy we are going back to work on the day the la mayor is shutting down all offices and setting threat level to red
Yay! Studios can continue overpaying drivers to sit in a parking lot for 12 hours.