After a two-day strike, 115 crew members on A&E’s America’s Top Dog have returned to work in Simi Valley under a contract negotiated by IATSE and Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399. “This was an important win for the America’s Top Dog crew […]
“From President Trump’s first day on the job,” writes Margaret Poydock for the EPI, “his administration has systematically promoted the interests of corporate executives and shareholders over those of working people. The current […]
In what advocates are calling the biggest union victory at a hospital in the American South since 1975, nurses at Mission Hospital in North Carolina overwhelmingly voted to unionize Thursday. “We could not be more proud […]
SAG-AFTRA has told Hollywood’s talent agents that return-to-work talks with management’s AMPTP have stalled because the companies are refusing to spring for COVID-19 quarantine pay for series regulars and other film and TV performers. […]
In Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, 4-year-old Mei chases a couple of mysterious creatures through some shrubs into a forest and stumbles into a hole at the base of a giant tree. There, she meets a giant, slumbering creature who roars […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited pork producer Smithfield Foods for failing to protect workers from coronavirus exposure, the agency announced Thursday. It proposed a penalty of $13,494, which is the maximum […]
One day after premiering and receiving the most rapturous reviews of any film in competition, US-based Chinese director Chloé Zhao has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for her film Nomadland, a documentary-influenced […]
As many production companies attempt to resume filming, many are asking crews to give up the right to make any claims against them if they get sick with COVID-19. … Hollywood’s entertainment unions [are] cautioning members not to sign […]
The Entertainment Union Coalition is hailing a bill signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom that will make it easier for workers to borrow from their employer-sponsored pension plans. EUC members include the California IATSE […]
Carolina Rodriguez said she had never thought much about joining a union until a co-worker lost his job. The colleague, a fellow teacher at a charter school system in San Jose, told Rodriguez that his contract had not been renewed […]
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