“The core principle of organized labor in America,” write Randi Weingarten, Mary Kay Henry and Lee Saunders in The Hill, “has always been a commitment to fairness and opportunity for all working people – that’s why […]
To help amplify Muslim talent on screen, Riz Ahmed has teamed with Pillars Fund, a Chicago-based advocacy group, and the Ford Foundation to create $25,000 fellowships for Muslim storytellers. The group also […]
In an interview with THR Presents, actors Cynthia Erivo, who inhabited the title role, Courtney Vance, who played her father, C.L. Franklin, series creator Suzan-Lori Parks and Anthony Hemingway, who directed the […]
For Steve McQueen, creating Small Axe — his landmark BBC/Amazon five-part anthology film series set within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s — came from a burning desire to put […]
Dominic Trumfio is a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 10-208 in Chicago. Trumfio is a theater musician, associate music director at his church and musical director for the Kiki Queens, a highly sought-after volunteer […]
Kyla Hsia is a senior digital strategist at AFL-CIO and a member of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. She recently joined the AFL-CIO team after sitting at the bargaining table for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s […]
Following a workplace investigation on the CBS drama Bull, showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron has exited the show and his overall deal with CBS Studios has ended, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The show’s writing staff underwent […]
On Thursday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — the 86-person organization of LA-based journalists for foreign media outlets that is behind the annual Golden Globe Awards — “overwhelmingly” approved a new Code of Professional […]
Bullying in Hollywood “is an industrywide problem,” said Anita Hill, chair of the Hollywood Commission, during a panel discussion Thursday titled “Bullying and Toxic Workplaces in Hollywood.” “The level of bullying, to put it mildly […]
Sheila Ivy Traister has given 44 years of cumulative service to the labor movement. She has held elected positions in the Colorado AFL-CIO and she has served SAG-AFTRA since before the merger. She has served on dozens of local committees […]
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