“We often hear people say that the coronavirus doesn’t discriminate,” said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. “We know that’s far from the truth. It has, and it will continue to. We’ve known for decades that women and minority communities don’t have equal access to health care. These inequities come in many forms. Hospital systems don’t open locations in […]
Just before Memorial Day, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced during a Zoom session … that within days, the state would issue guidelines allowing many counties to resume production, some as early as this past week. … Almost as soon as the news broke, a chorus of union representatives weighed in, putting the brakes on any imminent production reset. […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced during his Tuesday Coronavirus press conference that, while he had hoped to present guidelines for restarting film and TV production Tuesday, he is pushing back that announcement to confer with guilds and producers. “We chose to engage a little more formally” in the conversations, he said. “We […]
The AFL-CIO has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president. The labor group announced on Tuesday it will mobilize its members to defeat President Trump in November. It joins a long list of labor unions that have endorsed Biden. “Working people have responded to COVID-19 with passion and dedication, even as our federal government falls down on the job,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a press release. “Just imagine what we can […]
As film and TV producers optimistically plot to resume shuttered projects and launch new ones, they are all stymied by a major blind spot. While those producers are immersed in bringing in medical staffs, temperature takers and sanitizers to keep casts and crews safe, a lack of clarity around insurance and completion bonds is hobbling plans to get the […]
“Essential workers have been heralded as ‘heroes’ during the pandemic, cheered on by applause and music every night in some cities,” writes Becky Dernbach in Mother Jones. “While the symbolic appreciation is nice, the realities on the ground have been less so. The people who make our health care and food supply systems run, deliver packages and […]
The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee’s task force on the safe resumption of film and TV production expects to have the final draft of a White Paper completed in a week or two for delivery to government officials and public health authorities. The document still is under review by the representative of the major studios, unions and guilds, a source […]
The extraordinary steps taken to combat the coronavirus at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s nursing home in Woodland Hills are paying off. While six residents died in the early days of the outbreak, there have been no deaths there due to the virus since April 23, and no residents have tested positive since April 12. The last caregiver tested positive on April 30 […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom may see the state as mere days away from new guidelines to further open up from the coronavirus pandemic, but entertainment industry insiders are feeling broadsided by Wednesday’s announcement. “WTF?” said one top cable executive to Newsom Wednesday announcing he would reveal plans on May 25 that could spur […]
IATSE has endorsed Joe Biden for president of the United States. The union, which represents 140,000 entertainment workers … said Tuesday that its general executive board voted unanimously to endorse the former vice president for his “extensive record and history of fighting for workers’ rights and working families, but he is also genuinely concerned on a human level about the welfare of behind-the-scenes entertainment workers.” […]
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