DGA members have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a brand new contract with the Affiliation of Unbiased Business Producers. The DGA’s nationwide board unanimously accredited the contract throughout a particular assembly on November 20. DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter mentioned that “This contract incorporates vital features for our members and can develop this space of labor for years to return.”
The brand new two-year commercials pact supplies for 3% and three.5% pay raises, relying on job classes, within the first 12 months, and three% within the second. It additionally requires an extra 0.5% enhance in employer contributions to the DGA Pension Plan – for complete first 12 months financial will increase of between 3.5% and 4%.
Different highlights embody:
• A ten.5% enhance within the base salaries upon which pension and well being contributions are made for many administrators, which is able to end in elevated retirement advantages whereas making it simpler for them to qualify for well being protection
• A further necessary prep day for first assistant administrators when there’s a substantial change to the manufacturing schedule or capturing boards
• Including Juneteenth as a vacation
Neil Dudich, the DGA’s japanese govt director who led the guild’s negotiating workforce, mentioned that “Though change is a continuing within the industrial trade, one factor that may all the time keep the identical is our willpower to keep up the robust commercials contract we have now, and steadily enhance upon it in a means that is smart for our members and the industrial producers to thrive collectively.”