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Teamsters, IATSE, the WGA West and SAG-AFTRA joined forces today to distribute boxes of food and other necessities to industry workers whose lives have been upended by the strikes that have shut down most production. Volunteers held the drive-thru distribution event at Our Lady of Perpetual Help…

The Motion Picture & Television Fund will host a food drive August 24 to help out industry members affected by the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Volunteers are being provided by IATSE and Teamsters Local 399, with donations from the Matthew 25: Ministries and Labor Community Services, the non-profit…

Members of Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a pair of contracts with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, thus averting a threatened strike. Earlier this month, Lindsay Dougherty, the local's principal officer, threatened to take "a commercial break" if…

Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Independent Commercial Producers on terms for two three-year contracts, thus averting a threatened strike. One of the contracts covers drivers, wranglers, animal handlers/trainers and hyphenated drivers. The…

Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 has hired former Netflix senior counsel Kay Kimmel to serve as the local’s in-house counsel, where she will also assist as counsel to the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division. Kimmel took on her new roles May 2, the first day of the Writers Guild of…

Hollywood labor presented a united front last night at the Shrine Auditorium in support of the Writers Guild of America’s ongoing strike, which is now in its third day. That included Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, whose secretary-treasurer and chief negotiator Lindsay Dougherty had the biggest mic-drop…

Leaders of SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 showed their support for the WGA on Monday, posing with WGA leaders shortly before the 11 a.m. start of the Writers Guild's contract negotiations with producers at the AMPTP's headquarters in Sherman Oaks. Related…

An National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has ruled that two Hallmark movie productions violated federal labor law in 2021 when nine of its drivers were interrogated about their union activities, were threatened with job loss, and were then fired for attempting to unionize the projects…

Lindsay Dougherty, the principal officer of Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 – and the top movie Teamster in the country – is urging her members to start saving money in case of a strike later this year by writers, actors or directors. The earliest a strike could happen, if it comes to that, is May…

Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 is calling on Hudson Pacific Properties to voluntarily recognize it as the bargaining representative of nearly 120 workers employed at Quixote, Zio Studio Services and Star Waggons. Hudson Pacific Properties is a West Coast real estate firm that recently expanded its…

UPDATED, 7:45 AM: Ron Herrera, the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor who joined in the leaked audio conversation that has shaken City Hall leadership, has resigned. PREVIOUSLY, October 10: Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 is calling for the immediate resignation Ron Herrera…

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Dougherty, the newly re-elected leader of Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399, sees the Teamsters becoming "a more militant union," and is already looking ahead two years to when the local's film and TV contract will be up for renegotiation. The current contract, which she negotiated last summer with…