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Matt Loeb of IATSE charts a more aggressive path

By Richard Verrier
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Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees are accustomed to working quietly behind the scenes of movies and TV shows.

But their leader, Matt Loeb, has been shaking things up, putting the entertainment industry’s largest union on a more aggressive path since he took the helm of the union nearly three years ago after longtime IATSE President Tom Short resigned.

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In one of his first interviews as president, Loeb spoke to The Times about a recent high-profile strike against the producers of the reality TV show ‘The Biggest Loser,’ as well as a controversial plan to extend union contracts to visual-effects workers and his efforts to create a more open culture inside the IA, as it is known.

Read the full story in today’s Business section: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-loeb-20110621,0,4617135.story

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-- Richard Verrier

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Richard Verrier

Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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