Will Labor Remain Relevant?
Let’s cut from our usual close-ups of Local 700 organizing to a wide shot of the state of the American labor movement. […]
Let’s cut from our usual close-ups of Local 700 organizing to a wide shot of the state of the American labor movement. […]
We need to embrace a radical inclusivity if we are to expand our movement enough to make it relevant, vital and potentially victorious. […]
In its campaign to organize non-union employers, the Editors Guild has many tools and tactics. In some instances, employees withhold their labor in order to convince non-union employers to agree to union deals. […]
When we fight and win, we do so not because we have statutes or courts on our side, but because we have the extralegal strength that comes from steadfast solidarity among co-workers. […]
Where they have been enacted, “Right to Work” laws discourage union membership. Their object was, and remains, the evisceration of organized labor. […]
Almost two years ago, I met a lot of new friends and reconnected with many old ones walking the picket line in support of the striking crew of Shahs of Sunset. That strike afforded plenty of […]
By a vote of 89%, employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema have overwhelmingly ratified their first union contract.
The three-year agreement between the company and the Motion Picture Editors Guild covers technicians responsible […]
In a nondescript Burbank falafel joint on a sweltering Sunday afternoon in July of last year, co-workers crowded around an impromptu conference table made up of several four-tops pushed together. A tacky film adhered to the furniture, as is typical of greasy spoons. Sweaty forearms clung stickily to gummy tabletops. […]
In early October of this year, a group of employees at Leftfield Entertainment, a large reality television production company in New York, faced such a choice, set more or less explicitly in just such terms. And, only a few weeks earlier, the employees of Deluxe Culver City, an LA-area post-production facility, made effectively the same choice themselves, albeit not as explicitly framed. […]
What makes you a Guild member? Is it principally about a transaction, the remittance of quarterly payments for membership? Or is it about your relationship to your colleagues, […]
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