“When Pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C. [on Wednesday],” writes IATSE president Matt Loeb, “we watched one of the most egregious assaults on our Democracy in American History. […]
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called [pro-Trump demonstrations] “one of the greatest assaults on our democracy since the Civil War.” UAW President Rory Gamble described it as “a very sad day for our nation and our democracy.” […]
“The rate of new cases this month is translating into a disastrous increase in the number of people with severe COVID-19 symptoms being sent to our local hospitals,” said a statement from the Los Angeles County Public Health Department […]
Nine and a half months after all Hollywood production was shut down at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, filming in Los Angeles once again is at a standstill. Film and TV production has been exempt from coronavirus […]
Marjo Bernay, the trailblazing labor leader and feminist activist who once led three Los Angeles-based IATSE locals and served on the board of another, died Sunday of heart disease. She was 79. During her more than 40 years in the labor […]
More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in […]
On-set commercial production has been shuttered temporarily in Southern California because of surging coronavirus outbreaks in the region, effective immediately. The major studios and streamers, meanwhile, are already on production […]
The US said it will ban all shipments of palm oil from one of the world’s biggest producers after finding indicators of forced labor and other abuses on plantations that feed into the supply chains of some of America’s most famous food and […]
As L.A. nears its anniversary of the first reported Covid-19 case, officials confirm 15,701 new cases and 138 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday alone. December, defined by continued lockdowns, closures and holiday gatherings, marked […]
While the coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted almost every facet of the entertainment industry over the past nine months, the video game industry has continued powering through at breakneck speed as more people turn […]
©2016-2025 Motion Picture Editors Guild
