Bong Jong Ho’s South Korean film Parasite continued its remarkable awards-season run Friday night, winning the top prize for editor Jimmo Yang at the 70th annual ACE Eddie Awards. ACE also recognized Editors Guild president Alan Heim and Guild Executive Director Cathy Repola. […]
Despite some optimism from the White House and the business community, labor union leaders refuse to back the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The USMCA would replace the existing North American Free Trade Agreement, which predates e-commerce and has been criticized […]
Gersh has reached an agreement with the Writers Guild of America, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The agency is the largest full-service firm to date — its clients include Adam Driver and Patricia Arquette — to come to terms with the union, joining a growing list of agencies that includes Verve, Kaplan Stahler, Culture Creative Entertainment, Buchwald […]
The months-long protest of Kentucky coal miners who blocked a railroad track in fury over unpaid wages ended Wednesday night in a victory for the few miners who remained, with the company paying all wages demanded by a small band of miners in Pike County who blocked […]
CNN has agreed to pay $76 million in back pay to settle allegations that it violated federal labor law when it replaced hundreds of unionized broadcast technicians more than 15 years ago, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday. […]
The Guild’s two top leaders are honored. […]
“As the Trump administration redoubles decades of Republican efforts to beat US workers and their unions into fearful submission, it’s worth thinking about where we’ve come from, how workers fought for some of the rights …” writes Laura Clawson in The Daily Kos. […]
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said Friday that she supports President Trump’s renegotiated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which passed the Democratic-controlled House last month. Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate, told Boston CBS affiliate […]
“Nearly forty-five years after his 1975 disappearance outside the Machus Red Fox restaurant in a Detroit suburb,” writes Barry Eidlin in Jacobin, “labor leader Jimmy Hoffa is sparking renewed interest, thanks in large part to Martin Scorsese’s latest movie The Irishman. Few have embodied the […]
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California labor law meant to take effect from January 1 from impacting over 70,000 independent truckers by granting a ‘temporary restraining order.’ US District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego granted […]
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