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The group further argued that its members “will not be the ones expected to balance the budget of the company’s poor business decisions over the last year.”

On Tuesday the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents management in Hollywood labor negotiations, presented the unions with its latest counterproposals.

When talks resume on Monday, “We hope to see the AMPTP ready to sit back down at the table and be prepared to bargain and ‘care’ about the issues our members face,” the Hollywood Basic Crafts stated.

“At the conclusion of our scheduled dates for June, we want to make it clear that we are not interested in bargaining against ourselves,” Hollywood Basic Crafts chairperson Lindsay Dougherty and four other union leaders stated at the time.

These two latest messages from the Hollywood Basic Crafts negotiating team have differed in tenor from those sent by fellow crew union IATSE, which over the course of its recent Basic Agreement and Area Standards Agreement talks generally offered members a sense of progress at the bargaining table.

With those major crew contracts nearly wrapped up — IATSE union members still have to ratify the deals before they can take effect — all eyes are now on the Hollywood Basic Crafts as negotiations near their July 31 deadline.

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