Toronto 2012: IATSE Launches Protest Outside Festival Headquarters Over Out-Sour

Toronto 2012: IATSE Launches Protest Outside Festival Headquarters Over Out-Sour

dispute that follows contracting out of digital file revisions has led to a peaceful information picket by the projectionists union in front of Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival faces an information picket by IATSE Local 58 outside Bell Lightbox, the fest's year-round headquarters, on the eve of its 37th edition.

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The festival is looking to resolve the dispute over out-sourcing of digital revision work to Deluxe Toronto through arbitration to avoid any major disruption when Hollywood and the rest of the international film world descends on Toronto from September 6.

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"The collective agreement provides for a process for handling disagreements like this through an arbitration hearing, which we are in the process of scheduling," TIFF spokeswoman Jennifer Bell said Friday in a statement.
"This is the process that IATSE and TIFF have agreed to, and this is the way that the issue will be resolved," she added.

The IATSE local is at odds with TIFF after it contracted work to check and prepare digital film files ahead of the festival screenings running from September 6 to 16.
In the past, the revising of celluloid film ahead of the annual September film festival was done in-house.
But with TIFF like most festivals increasingly employing digital projection technology, Toronto organizers insist revising digital files cannot be done in-house.
IATSE Local 58, meanwhile, is looking to protect its turf with the information picket outside Bell Lightbox.

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"They somehow seem to think that the fact that it can't be performed in-house somehow takes away our jurisdiction. It does not," IATSE president Jim Brett told the Globe and Mail newspaper.
IATSE Local 58, which represents TIFF projectionists and revisors, filed a grievance on the contracting out of work to Deluxe Toronto.
The festival maintains the action has so far been "peaceful" in the run-up to TIFF, and within the right of IATSE Local 58.

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Unions Speak Out Against Piracy...

Joining federal lawmakers at a piracy press conference, the labor organizations denounced "profiteers" who traffic in illegally obtained content.
Representatives from the DGA, AFTRA, IATSE and SAG joined Congressional lawmakers at a press conference today on Capitol Hill to discuss fighting copyright infringement and Internet theft.
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The unions released a statement decrying "Illegal downloading and streaming of the content made by our members" and stating that those practices "pose a devastating threat to the future of the hundreds of thousands of working men and women who make up the American entertainment industry."
The release noted that those guilds and unions represent 300,000 creators, performers and craftspeople who create films, television programs and sound recordings. The Writers Guild was not part of the press conference, but both the WGA West and East have spoken out against piracy as well.
The union statement argued that "Professional content is a driving force behind the massive popularity of the Internet" and blasted "profiteers who knowingly traffic in content they have obtained illegally and played no role at all in creating or financing."
The press conference did not appear to be connected to any new legislative efforts to address unauthorized downloading or streaming.

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