The Department of Labor recovered $78,613 in back wages for 27 butcher shop workers to resolve a wage dispute. “These essential workers deserve to take home every penny of their hard-earned wages. […]
The sheer volume and variety of new projects available at the Cannes Film Market this year is evidence that COVID-19 did not shut down the independent movie business. While the pandemic closed cinemas […]
A New Book Looks at the Tortured Creators – and Editing-Room Nightmare – Behind ‘Midnight Cowboy’ […]
Amy Duddleston and her crew went to work recutting what had been shot of all of the seven episodes, taking each one through a director’s and a producer’s cut remotely from home in Los Angeles, considering everything from script changes to pandemic concerns in terms of building larger scenes. “We were very lucky because it shaped the show,” she said. […]
“Employers never let a crisis go to waste,” writes Alexandra Bradbury in Labor Notes. “The [chicken processing] speedup demand was never really about Covid—a fact underlined by Trump’s attempt to make […]
Traditionally, a picture editor was the person snipping celluloid together, writes Anousha Sakoui in The Los Angeles Times. Like many roles in Hollywood, the route into the industry is not clear-cut. Here’s a primer on […]
The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The union and the company declined to share details […]
Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 workers in the US were killed and more than 70,000 were injured from heat stress injuries. It’s likely that the true number of workers hurt or killed due to extreme heat is much […]
L.A. County public health officials are breaking with many other health departments, asking even inoculated residents to modify their behavior amid a concerning uptick in coronavirus transmission and the circulation […]
“Rudin relied on intimidation, NDAs and industry relationships to continue his bullying,” writes Tatiana Siegel in The Hollywood Reporter. “I find it impossible to imagine that people who worked with him […]
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