President Biden on Wednesday rescinded one of former President Trump’s more controversial workforce initiatives, stripping Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of the authority to strip Pentagon employees of the right to unionize. […]
“Opponents of raising the minimum wage,” writes Arindrajit Dube in The Washington Post, “have seized on a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office that estimated that increasing it to $15 by 2025 would cause 1.4 Americans […]
Biden will nominate a former US Postal Service executive, a leading voting-rights advocate and a former postal union leader to the mail service’s governing board. Meanwhile, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a House panel Wednesday that […]
Hollywood received a huge boost Monday upon receiving word that theaters in New York City — which have been shut down for nearly a year because of COVID-19 — will be permitted to reopen March 5, albeit with strict restrictions in place. […]
The share of episodic TV shows directed by women and people of color has reached “new highs,” according to the latest DGA Inclusion Report, with women directing more than a third of TV episodes in the 2019-20 season, and directors of color […]
The MPAA, DGA, IATSE, IFTA, SAG-AFTRA along with the AFL-CIO’s Department of Professional Employees have penned a letter to President Joe Biden urging the new administration to keep the job-providing, economy-stimulating film […]
This report finds that after increasing dramatically in 2018 and 2019, the official federal count of workers involved in major strikes dropped in 2020. Key findings include: Anemic wage growth despite low unemployment — motivating […]
As the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders has already played a key role in advancing President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, and he is now scheduling high-profile hearings on some of the […]
Workers unionizing with the Retail Workers and Wholesale Distribution Union at an Amazon distribution center in Bessemer, Alabama, have been met with a range of tactics to dissuade them from voting for a union, including frequent […]
A coalition of industry guilds and organizations is again calling on US legislators to implement accessible pandemic risk insurance coverage as COVID-19 continues to disrupt Hollywood production. “As you develop the agenda for the Senate […]
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