It's Monday, October 18th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I'm Josie W. Rice, and this is What A Day, where we're announcing our recent acquisition

by the media company from Succession.

It means we have to do a rap song for John Love Its Birthday. We hope he enjoys it. It's

more than a say.

On today's show, the trial begins for the alleged murderers of Amad Arbery, plus an FDA panel

recommends that a J&J COVID booster shot should be in order for those who got the first.

But before all of that, there's some big labor news. On Saturday night, the leadership

of the International Alliance of the Atrical Stage employees, or IOTC, announced a tentative

agreement for a new contract between the TV and film crew members it represents and

Hollywood producers. In the short term, this deal prevents a strike that would have begun

today. But things got a little bit more complicated from there. So Gideon, tell us first,

what were the details of this tentative agreement?

Yeah, this all felt like it was happening kind of quickly over the weekend. So in a statement

that IOTC issued Saturday night, union leaders said that they secured some of the following

as part of a tentative three-year agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television

producers. So that is a quote-unquote living wage for the lowest paid earners, retroactive

wage increases of 3% annually, increased meal period penalties. That's basically if the

studio or the set goes through a planned lunch and they have to pay some money for that

if they're making people say daily rest periods of 10 hours, weekend rest periods of 54

hours, and quite a bit more. We're going to link to the full statement so you can see it.

But this certainly was presented at first as a celebratory moment with IOTC's international

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