CAA on Thursday filed a motion in a California state court seeking to boot the Writers Guild of America from its own litigation on the grounds that the organization has no standing to sue over conduct relating to individual members and […]
For the second time in five years, workers at Volkswagen AG’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant have been voting this week on whether to unionize, potentially handing the United Auto Workers its first toehold in the US South. The vote by […]
Employees who work alone in hotel rooms will soon be required to carry panic button devices, making New Jersey first in the nation to mandate the safety measure, according to the governor. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday […]
“Kael’s legendary essay-review about Bonnie and Clyde was published in 1967 in The New Yorker,” writes Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. “For a movie critic to read it now is to experience a mix of emotions: glee, euphoria, fascination, exhilaration and […]
Whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act disproportionately helped the rich may be 2020’s biggest political issue. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin claims that it benefited most Americans. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) calls it a massive giveaway […]
“Back in 2009, I called for Elizabeth Warren to run for president,” writes Matt Taibbi in The San Francisco Chronicle. “I may have been the first media figure to do so. This was early in the Obama presidency, when he was beginning to renege on some […]
With unions under assault by the Trump administration, the right-wing Supreme Court, and Republicans at the state-level, Nevada’s Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak on Wednesday signed into law a slate of pro-worker bills that […]
BAFTA has announced its film ceremony dates for 2021 and 2022. The former will be held on Sunday February 14 and the latter on February 13. No surprise here. BAFTA tends to jump to the drum beat of the Oscars when it comes to scheduling […]
A top employee representative in Volkswagen’s Global Works Council was denied entry into the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory Wednesday as the union election began. The plant’s 1,700 eligible hourly employees began voting this […]
California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris, former Texas Democratic Representative Beto O’Rourke and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg will join striking fast-food workers this week as they seek to support efforts to organize labor […]
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