Hollywood Could Be Facing Another Strike From the Teamsters and IATSE

Teamsters leader Sean O'Brien said the union is preparing for negotiations with movie and TV studios.

Writers hold signs while picketing in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles on May 15, 2023, as the strike by the Writers Guild of America enters its third week. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

With one major strike wrapping up, should Hollywood’s biggest studios prepare for another?

During Senate testimony on Nov. 14, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) General President Sean O'Brien said “in a few months” more than 7,000 Teamsters and members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE) will “take on the big movie and TV studios.”