Why Trump’s Labor Board is So Scared of Scabby the Rat
Five years ago, I began a relationship with an unlikely companion. […]
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Guild Announces Three LA Hires
The Editors Guild is pleased to announce three new hires in its Hollywood headquarters. […]
AFL-CIO Criticizes Activision CEO
The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, has called out Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick and his 2018 salary after massive layoffs earlier this year, according to Patrick Shanley in The Hollywood Reporter in June. Nearly 800 employees lost their jobs in 2019. […]
Cathy Repola Extends Contract as Guild’s National Executive Director
The Board of Directors approved a five-year renewal starting November 1 for Repola, who has held a series of top roles at the Guild since 1992 and has been in her current post since 2016. […]
Will a California Law Ruin Your Loan-Out Tax Planning? Don’t Worry Yet, Guild Leader Says
Cathy Repola of MPEG says that “sensationalized headlines” about the California bill have “created a great deal of confusion among our members.” […]
Why the World Pride Parade and LGBTQ Awareness Matter to the Guild
This weekend, I will proudly march with members of Local 700, alongside IATSE members from the vast number of crafts within the union. […]
Beginnings and Endings
It’s well known, and often cited, that of all the filmmaking crafts, editing is the only one that did not exist before the advent of moving pictures. In fact, editing was actually created in the process of making those early films — first within the movie camera (or kinetograph or cinématographe) and then after the film was developed and printed, in the phase that became known as post-production. […]
Bernie Would Ban Anti-Union Laws
Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) announced in early April that if elected, he would ban so-called right-to-work laws. Slightly more than half of US states currently have laws on the books banning unions from negotiating contracts that require all members who benefit from a union […]
Personal Effects: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Interaction
One of the social media companies competing for my ever-diminishing supply of attention sends me almost daily e-mails imploring me to log onto its site so that I can build an online simulacrum of my professional network. Those e-mails egg me on with a declarative catchphrase: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” […]
A Teachable Moment – Lessons Learned from the UTLA Strike
by Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a […]