Editors Guild Offers Praise & Warning For California Post-Production Incentives Initiative

Editors Guild Offers Praise & Warning For California Post-Production Incentives Initiative

The Motion Picture Editors Guild likes a new bill introduced in Sacramento aimed at creating a tax-incentive program to keep post-production work in California, but it thinks the proposed legislation’s labor standards need to be toughened up to make sure that work ensures good jobs. “Our members have spent decades building a system of fair wages and professional standards,” guild boss F. Hudson Miller said Monday at an event unveiling Assembly…

Local 700 Leadership Speaks Out in Support of California Post-Production Incentive

By A.J. Catoline    Local 700 officials joined lawmakers and other industry leaders in North Hollywood Monday to voice support to a prospective standalone post-production tax incentive that they hope would reinvigorate jobs for California-based Editors Guild members. At a morning press conference, Editors Guild President F. Hudson Miller delivered a strong call for action while urging safeguards for Local 700 members. “Right now, far too many of…