Reprinted from The Washington Post by on February 5, 2021.
Neither side was willing to comment beyond terse statements confirming the tentative deal. …
Soccer Players’ Union and MLS Reach a Tentative Labor Agreement
Labor News
Guild
Guild Announces Three LA Hires
The Editors Guild is pleased to announce three new hires in its Hollywood headquarters.
Labor
Metropolitan Opera to Lock Out IATSE Stagehands as Contract Talks Stall
IATSE International President Matthew Loeb said, “It’s outrageous for the Met to lockout its stagehands during the pandemic, and to leverage them for conditions the company was unable to get in normal times. It’s opportunistic
Industry
WSJ: Biden’s Big Labor Bind
“If Washington’s grand infrastructure talks collapse, as they likely will,” writes Kimberly Strassel in The Wall Street Journal, “expect the usual finger-pointing from both sides. … Biden’s top agenda item is boosting organized labor—a payoff to the unions that spent big to propel him to victory.
