The industry has just cleared a major hurdle in its effort to get back to work. After months of negotiations, Hollywood’s top studios and unions have finally come to an agreement on a handful of lingering issues related to COVID-19 filming protocols on Monday (read the full return-to-work agreement here).
The deal was reached by the AMPTP, the Directors Guild, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, Teamsters and the Basic Crafts, who'd been bargaining over details of the contract since June.
Guidelines were first laid out in a June 1 "white paper" crafted by the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force — members of which include AMPTP, SAG-AFTRA, the DGA, IATSE and the Teamsters — and then later in "The Safe Way Forward" report, a 36-page.