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The Producers Guild of America's ongoing efforts to ensure health insurance benefits for all its members just got an intergalactic boost. In a significant step towards greater coverage, the homes of E.T., the latest iterations of Star Trek, a Justice League and a Star Wars flick or two have all…

The temperature is rising, but it's not another Hot Labor Summer in Hollywood – yet. IATSE and the studios have penciled in a return to negotiations in about two weeks on a new deal on the Hollywood Basic Agreement and the Area Standards Agreement. The sit-down on a three-year contract for the…

With IATSE’s deal still up in the air, Teamsters Local 399 is taking up the mantle Monday to negotiate on a new three-year contract with the studios. On behalf of her members, Teamsters Local 399 chief Lindsay Dougherty is ready to drive a hard bargain with the Alliance of Motion Picture and…

EXCLUSIVE: Crisis averted! The Daytime Emmys will go on as planned, after IATSE threatened to picket over the production’s use of a majority non-union crew on Friday. IATSE leadership met with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Friday afternoon in an effort to reach an agreement…

EXCLUSIVE: A day after IATSE and the studios failed to make a deal on a new Basic Agreement, the Daytime Emmys find themselves in the labor spotlight. Deadline has learned that Friday night’s Daytime Emmy awards has become an “organizing target” for the union, because a significant portion of the…

Lemonada Media, the podcast network responsible for titles such as Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Fail Better with David Duchovny, has voluntarily recognized its creative staff’s unionization under the Writers Guild of America East. Producers and engineers at Lemonada will now be…

Hollywood might be experiencing some labor déjà vu today as IATSE talks with the studios look certain to go down to the wire with just under two months before the union’s contracts expire. The union announced Thursday that it had not yet reached a deal on the Basic Agreement nor the Area Standards…

EXCLUSIVE: Showrunner Industries is now working with the AI startup ScriptGen on a collaboration involving the former’s script development platform WritersRoom Pro. The deal will entail using ScriptGen’s machine learning to develop AI productivity tools within WritersRoom Pro that “will span the…

IATSE is still chipping away at a new three-year deal with the studios, even as the union’s scheduled bargaining days dwindle. The union revealed over the weekend that talks on the Area Standards Agreement, which were scheduled to conclude by Friday, will continue later this month. The union is now…

EXCLUSIVE: More than two years after unionizing through the WGA East, the writers at iHeartPodcasts still don’t have their first deal with the network. Now, the 100-member unit is prepared to strike if an agreement isn’t reached soon. Deadline hears there is “overwhelming support” for a ULP work…

The California Employment Development Department has insisted that loan out corporations will not be prohibited in the state, after entertainment payroll agencies raised alarm over the weekend. As Deadline previously reported, IATSE and several of the other Hollywood guilds issued memos to their…

EXCLUSIVE: The California Employment Development Department soon might stop recognizing loan out corporations. Several IATSE locals informed their members Friday night that they'd received notice from payroll service Cast & Crew that, following an audit of the company, the EDD will instead require…