The company agreed to recognize the union after an arbitrator certified last week that a majority of the employees had signed union authorization cards.
Rob Callahan
Rob Callahan
Rob Callahan is the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s National Organizer. He can be reached at RCallahan@editorsguild.com. Learn more about organizing with the Guild at www.editorsguild.com/Organize.
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The Show Will Go On, and Labor Has a Role to Play
by Rob Callahan12 minutes readWe have been spending a lot of time at home.
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Why Trump’s Labor Board is So Scared of Scabby the Rat
by Rob Callahan9 minutes readFive years ago, I began a relationship with an unlikely companion.
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Personal Effects: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Interaction
by Rob Callahan7 minutes readOne of the social media companies competing for my ever-diminishing supply of attention sends me almost daily e-mails imploring me to log onto its site so that I can build …
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A Teachable Moment – Lessons Learned from the UTLA Strike
by Rob Callahan12 minutes readby Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a moment in which organized labor in the US teetered precariously …
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Post-production employees of Vice Media, Inc. have overwhelmingly ratified a Motion Picture Editors Guild union contract. The agreement addresses employee’s concerns over pay and job security, and also breaks new …
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The Never-Ending Effort to Forge Solidarity
by Rob Callahan7 minutes readThis issue of CineMontage, for all its many virtues, isn’t the most important piece of mail you’ll receive this month. Local 700 members, as well as members of our 12 …
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Unions’ Cliffhanger: The Fate of Labor Dangles on the Brink of Catastrophe
by Rob Callahan10 minutes readConflict between labor and management is nothing new. The period of post-WWII prosperity in which US union density reached its peak was decidedly not an era of labor peace.
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Nick Animation Editorial Crew Goes Union!
by Rob Callahan2 minutes readThe editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio have overwhelmingly elected to unionize with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
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Resolve vs. Intransigence
The Key to Organizing a Workplaceby Rob Callahan8 minutes readDeciding to organize in the workplace is itself a kind of resolution — one appropriate for the new year or any other time a change is warranted.