Local News in Brief : Teamsters Report ‘Headway’ in Talks
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Hollywood producers and Teamster drivers are making “some headway” in negotiations to avert another crippling entertainment industry strike, a spokesman for the union said Friday.
Negotiators had planned to adjourn their daylong meeting at midnight Thursday but decided to continue talks into the early morning, said Earl Bush, secretary-treasurer for Teamsters Local 399.
“We are making some headway, but it’s very, very slow,” Bush said. “We will stay and try and work it out.”
Bush has said he will call a strike if needed. The Teamsters contract with the producers expired July 30, but the powerful union has continued to work by day-to-day extensions.
The talks convened Thursday morning at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in Sherman Oaks, one day after the union overwhelmingly rejected the producers’ last offer.
A walkout by the Teamsters, representing 2,200 film and television drivers, could again stall Hollywood production, which returned to work only recently after a five-month writers’ strike.
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