Hollywood Could Be Facing Another Strike From the Teamsters and IATSE

Published on November 14, 2023

With one major strike wrapping up, should Hollywood’s biggest studios prepare for another? During Senate testimony on Nov. 14, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) General President Sean O’Brien said “in a few months” more than 7,000 Teamsters and members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE) will “take on the big movie and TV studios.” “Just as the WGA and the SAG-AFTRA members were forced out on strike this year, we have our own battle brewing with the AMPTP,” Mr. O’Brien told members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions....

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