34°05′54″N118°21′29″W / 34.098266°N 118.357976°W /34.098266; -118.357976The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG;IATSE Local 700) is theguild that representsfreelance and staff motion picture and television editors and otherpost-production professionals and story analysts throughout theUnited States. The Motion Picture Editors Guild (Union Local 700) is a part of the 500 affiliated localunions of theInternational Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), a nationallabor organization with 104,000-plus members. There are more than 8,000 members of the Editors Guild.
The MPEG negotiates collective bargaining agreements (union contracts) with producers andmajor motion picture movie studios[1] and enforces existing agreements with employers involved inpost-production. The MPEG provides assistance for securing better working conditions, including but not limited to, salary, medical benefits, safety (particularly "turnaround time") and artistic (assignment of credit) concerns.
On April 12, 1937, theUS Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of theNational Labor Relations Act.[2]
On May 20, 1937, theSociety of Motion Picture Film Editors[2] was founded by I. James Wilkinson (sound editor), Ben Lewis (film editor) andPhilip Cahn (film editor),[2] when film editors earned a mere $100 per week.[citation needed]
On June 7 1937, membership totaled 571, men and women, as picture editors, sound editors, assistants, apprentices and librarians.[2]
In 1938, the first contract talks garnered a 10% wage increase.
In 1943, film editors and assistant editors are offered their own local by the IATSE. Many Society members sought to align themselves with this larger national organization, hoping for greater negotiating clout. The editors, assistant editors, and sound and music editors voted to join IATSE.
In 1944, the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors underwent a name change and became the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 776 of the IATSE.[2]
In 1998, at the direction of the IATSE, the Sound Technicians Union, Local 695 ceded jurisdiction of post-production sound mixers, recordists and engineers, to the Motion Picture Editors Guild. A year later Local 771 representing editors working in New York merged with, and Locals 780 and 52 ceded their respective jurisdictions of editors and sound technicians to Local 776. The greatly expanded Editors Guild now Local 700, is only the second local granted a national rather than a regional charter. By the year 2000 their ranks had been joined by the Story Analysts local and the Laboratory Film /Video Technicians-Cinetechnicians local in late 2010. Today[when?] the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 has offices in New York and Hollywood and represents more than 7000 post-production media professionals nationwide making it the second largest local in the IATSE.
CineMontage Magazine is theJournal of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700.[3]The Leader, the quarterly bulletin of theSociety of Motion Picture Film Editors, was first published January 1, 1943.[3] TheEditors Guild Newsletter was launched in 1979, later changed to a magazine, and in 2000, was retitledEditors Guild Magazine.[3]
The Academy Film Archive houses the Motion Picture Editors Guild Legacy Archive Collection. The collection includes interviews focusing on the life and career history of Motion Picture Editors Guild members.[1]
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