Motion Picture Editors Guild
Coordinates: 34°05′54″N 118°21′29″W / 34.098266°N 118.357976°W / 34.098266; -118.357976
Not to be confused with Moving Picture Experts Group.The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG) is the guild that represents freelance and staff motion picture film and television editors and other post-production professionals and story analysts throughout the United States. The Motion Picture Editors Guild (Union Local 700) is a part of the 500 affiliated local unions of IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees), a national labor organization with a 115-plus year old history of bargaining for better wages and working conditions for its 104,000-plus members. Currently there are more than 6,000 members of the nearly 75 year old Editors Guild.
The MPEG negotiates collective bargaining agreements (union contracts) with producers and major motion picture movie studios and enforces existing agreements with employers involved in post-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.
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