“The truth is,” writes Paris Marx in Jacobin, “that the discourse around cultural industries has shifted almost entirely to reflect the interests of the media oligopoly, and the consolidation of those industries is fundamentally eroding the quality of work and […]
With his substantial early lead in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, demonstrated the enduring power of a candidate who can connect to working- and […]
“Monthly job-growth over the past 3 months has averaged 540,000, a pace that would see the economy hit pre-covid measures of labor market health by the end of 2022,” write Shierholz and Bivens for EPI. […]
A chorus of calls for mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations – and the possibility that the industry soon might make them a requirement – prompted SAG-AFTRA to adopt new guidelines for employers who want to require […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a California regulation allowing union organizers to recruit agricultural workers at their workplaces violated the constitutional rights of their employers. The vote was […]
General Hospital, Jeopardy! and The Kelly Clarkson Show were among the big winners at the 48th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Outstanding Sound Mixing and Editing went to The Letter for the King […]
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents over one million workers in North America in industries including parcel delivery and freight, voted to make it a priority to organize Amazon workers […]
“My current favorite,” writes Malina Saval in Variety, “in Guy Nattiv’s upcoming Golda Meir biopic, Helen Mirren will play Israel’s lone female prime minister because nothing says grandmother of the Jewish people like […]
The 74th Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its jury which includes five women; a majority in the nine-person group including President Spike Lee. The jury includes French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop […]
For the first time since December 2020, California’s 7-day Covid test positivity rate is on the rise. The test positivity rate, which hit a pandemic-era low of 0.7% on June 5, has risen slowly but steadily over the […]
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