{"id":644066,"date":"2026-05-15T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:09:08","slug":"mrbeast-teamsters-lock-horns-over-beast-games-unionization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644066\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast & Teamsters Lock Horns Over Beast Games Unionization"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Just days after inking a union deal<\/a> with IATSE for production on Season 3 of Prime Video\u2019s Beast Games<\/a>, MrBeast<\/a> and his company find themselves in a stand-off of sorts with the Teamsters<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tA tense dust-up this afternoon to try to solve an impasse in negotiations has seen by the Teamsters as over reach. In response the union threatening a strike starting early Friday morning, I hear. Obviously, such a move would bring current production on the Greenville, North Carolina-based $10 million competition show to a halt.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeast Games paid out union level wages to its crew in Seasons 1 and 2. For Season 3, it looked like more of the same was on the menu from parent company Beast Industries, with a nod from Amazon. <\/p>\n

\n\tAppreciating that, the Teamsters wanted to solidify the production as a union one. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat codification of conditions was not exactly what MrBeast (AKA Jimmy Donaldson) and team were thinking it seems. So, earlier Thursday, with the good will of the IATSE deal still in the air, the Beasties offered up taking a poll of the affected crew (AKA a card check) to determine if \u00a050% + 1 desired Teamster representation, a labor insider tells Deadline.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Teamsters side of Local 391 and Hollywood\u2019s Lindsay Dougherty-run Local 399 balked at the perceived move into their territory. The whole thing seemed to go south rapidly, with a 6 AM deadline thrown down as a marker. <\/p>\n

\n\tNeither Beast Industries nor Local 399 responded tonight to Deadline\u2019s request for comment on what is going down at the production. However, with the hours ticking away, it looks like the parties are engaged presently in a parlay of sorts to perhaps resolve the situation before the morning. <\/p>\n

\n\tFact is, there is a very close to home blueprint for all sides to follow \u2014 thanks to IATSE. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn May 11, after the union was recognized, Beast Industries and IATSE reached an agreement to cover around 500 crew members on the sprawling Beast Games. Turns out it could be a pretty far reaching deal. Earlier this week, IATSE says that the agreement covers not only Season 3 but \u201csubsequent seasons\u201d \u2013 \u2013 though nothing beyond a third season has been given the go-ahead by Amazon. <\/p>\n

\n\tPutting 1,000 contestants against each other in a series of challenges (some more challenging that others, let\u2019s be honest), Beast Games is fronted by co-creator MrBeast. <\/p>\n

\n\tDespite some legal salvos about conditions<\/a> on the real life Squid-Game-with-less-fatal-results show, Prime Video quietly but unsurprisingly handed the very well viewed BG a Season 3 renewal not long after the Season 2 debut earlier this year. Cited as a shakedown by Team Beast<\/a>, a subsequent harassment and retaliation suit by a former Beast Industries social media staffer also hasn\u2019t caused any delay in Beast Games going forward either. <\/p>\n

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