{"id":20103,"date":"2025-07-01T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iatse.net\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:43:27","slug":"iatse-denounces-tax-cuts-for-billionaires-corporations-at-expense-of-working-people-in-senate-budget-reconciliation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iatse.net\/iatse-denounces-tax-cuts-for-billionaires-corporations-at-expense-of-working-people-in-senate-budget-reconciliation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"IATSE Denounces Tax Cuts for Billionaires & Corporations at Expense of Working People in Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 <\/strong>The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) denounces the U.S. Senate budget reconciliation bill and condemns the Republican majority for forcing the legislation through on a partisan basis without including priorities, nor resolving concerns, that IATSE members and working people have been raising consistently over the past several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate-passed bill can only be described as a betrayal of American workers \u2013 it represents a multibillion-dollar handout to the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, paid for exclusively by workers and their families. Its few provisions that may benefit workers\u2019 tax bills \u2013 on overtime and tips \u2013 are more than neutralized by the costs imposed in lost health care coverage, higher health care prices, lost food assistance, fewer jobs, and higher energy prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IATSE and the broader labor movement waged an aggressive advocacy campaign to address our key issues in this bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IATSE members across the country demanded that their Senators remove a reckless provision that would ban states from enacting or enforcing artificial intelligence (AI) protections for a decade<\/a>, and in this fight we prevailed, as a bipartisan amendment stripped the provision from the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the threat to IATSE members\u2019 livelihoods posed by a 10 year ban on states enacting or enforcing AI protections was defeated, our call to include critical film and television tax measures in the package to increase domestic film and television production to bring back American jobs<\/a> went unanswered by the Senate Republican majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis bill cuts worker protections, jobs, life-saving health care, food security, and will increase costs on working people to pay for tax-cuts for the top 1%,\u201d IATSE President Matthew D. Loeb said following the Tuesday vote. \u201cIt is unconscionable, it is an attack on workers, and our Alliance rejects it outright. I commend IATSE members for earning a hard-fought victory on removing the ten-year AI moratorium. With the bill\u2019s fate returned to the House of Representatives, I urge House Republicans to grapple honestly with the harm that would befall their constituents should this bill become law. Otherwise, we will remember 16 months from now at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking how the 7\/1\/2025 Senate Reconciliation Bill would affect IATSE members and entertainment workers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


AI Moratorium<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n