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MrBeast & Teamsters Poised For Showdown Over ‘Beast Games’ Season 3 Deal, Or Lack Thereof

Deadline·Dominic Patten·6 months ago
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EXCLUSIVE: Just days after inking a union deal with IATSE for production on Season 3 of Prime Video’s Beast Games , MrBeast and his company find themselves in a stand-off of sorts with the Teamsters .

A 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.

Beast 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.

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Appreciating that, the Teamsters wanted to solidify the production as a union one.

That codification of conditions was not exactly what MrBeast (AKA Jimmy Donaldson) and team were thinking it seems.…

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