SAG-AFTRA will be taking its three-year-long labor dispute with the Spanish Broadcasting System to the streets next week. The union says its members will rally at noon Thursday outside the Los Angeles offices of SBS radio stations Mega and La Raza to pressure the company into negotiating its first contract with the union. […]
The nation’s second-largest teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, said it will encourage local and state chapters to back Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) or former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic nomination. […]
Credits include “Underground,” “Black Lightning” and “Better Things” […]
The WGA and the Big 3 talent agencies have agreed to try to resolve their ongoing legal dispute through mediation – a standard procedure ordered by the presiding judge that doesn’t signify a breakthrough in the case, in which each side is accusing the other of antitrust violations over packaging fees. […]
Technical employees at Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform popular with film and music producers among others, have voted to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, the OPEIU said Tuesday. The 85-member bargaining unit will affiliate with OPEIU Local 153 in New York. […]
Winner of the 2005 ACE Eddie Award for “Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story” […]
Production and post-production workers at The Young Turks, the online network offering news from a progressive, left-leaning perspective, have organized a union through the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. TYT, founded in 2002 by chief on-camera personality Cenk Uygur, produces a variety of programs, including its flagship […]
Nominated for 2 Emmys and 6 Golden Reel Awards for titles like, “The Defiant Ones” and “Blade Runner 2049” […]
In a major victory for IATSE members and working people across the United States, the House of Representatives on May 6 passed H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on a bipartisan basis. The PRO Act will restore fairness to the economy by strengthening the federal laws that give workers a voice on the job so they can negotiate for higher wages, better benefits, a more secure retirement and a safer workplace. […]
Over the weekend, just days before jurors in the Harvey Weinstein case were set to begin deliberations, his lead defense lawyer, Donna Rotunno, wrote an opinion piece imploring them “to do what they know is right.” The article in Newsweek magazine infuriated the Manhattan district attorney’s office, and on Tuesday the lead prosecutor called […]
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