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GETTING ORGANIZED: How the Pandemic Has Changed Our Union, and Us
The past two years have changed our union – and ourselves – in ways we never dreamed […]
Getting Organized
Features
GETTING ORGANIZED: 40 Years On, Memories Linger of PATCO Strike That Grounded Labor
Forty years ago, the air-traffic controllers’ strike sent labor’s fortunes plummeting. Are the skies about to get friendlier for workers? […]
Features
GETTING ORGANIZED: The Lessons of the Lost Union Drive at Amazon
What a Lost Union Drive Means for the Future of Labor Organizing […]
Getting Organized
Getting Organized: Yes, Shows Can Be Organized Even During a Global Pandemic
Like a lot of our members who have had employment during the pandemic, Editors Guild staff members have been working from home. […]
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Has the Labor Movement Turned the Page?
Can Biden Repair Trump’s Damage to Workers? […]
Departments
The Show Will Go On, and Labor Has a Role to Play
We have been spending a lot of time at home. […]
Departments
Why Trump’s Labor Board is So Scared of Scabby the Rat
Five years ago, I began a relationship with an unlikely companion. […]
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Personal Effects: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Interaction
One 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 an online simulacrum of my professional network. Those e-mails egg me on with a declarative catchphrase: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” […]
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A Teachable Moment – Lessons Learned from the UTLA Strike
by Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a […]
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The Never-Ending Effort to Forge Solidarity
This 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 sister IATSE locals who share the Basic Agreement, will soon receive ballots in their mailboxes. […]