Steven Poster will continue his post as president of the
International Cinematographers Guild after defeating Challenger Haskell Wexler.
Poster received 57.6% of the votes, according to a press release on the
organization’s Web site. Over 2,400 votes were cast, the largest turnout in the
group’s history.
Poster will serve a three-year term for Local 600, a union
that represents camera assistants, operators, directors of photography and
publicists. In addition to tackling on-going issues such as runaway production
and undesirable working conditions, Poster will also prepare for the next set of
Hollywood Basic Agreement negotiations in 2009.
Poster, as well as other elected members of IATSE, will be
sworn in next month at the NEB
meeting in Los Angeles.
