During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump famously pledged: “The jobs, incomes, and security of the American worker will always be my first priority.” But at every opportunity — whether in appointing pro-corporate, anti-worker nominees to the courts, key agencies and […]
Lawmakers said Friday that the US government needs to ban the import of products made with child or forced labor after an AP investigation found widespread exploitation in the palm oil industry, from debt bondage to outright slavery. […]
Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP finally have an agreement to return to work in the coronavirus era. Union sources say the deal took much longer to reach than they would have liked or expected. The agreement means that […]
“Her opinions in my field of labor and employment are for the ages,” writes William Gould in The Stanford Law Review. “Her work fighting against employer devised and controlled arbitration procedures—what she aptly called ‘unbargained […]
FilmLA, the organization that doles out permits and tracks shooting in the region, says that it’s finally starting to see a more confident return to production. Its monthly film permit requests have increased nearly 40 percent in August compared to […]
As Hollywood producers continue to seek union approval to resume production, the Producers Guild of America has unveiled its latest health and safety guidelines for production amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 56-page COVID-safety […]
Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP are “very close to an agreed upon framework for a safe return to work,” an industry source tells Deadline. Their ongoing negotiations cover a wide range of safety issues that were left unresolved by […]
“He promised to be ‘the voice’ of American workers,” writes former Labor Secretary Robert Reich in The American Prospect. “He hasn’t. His administration has stripped workers of their rights, repealed overtime protections, rolled back workplace safety rules, and turned a blind eye to employers who steal […]
David Williams, a former Postal Service inspector general who resigned as vice chairman in protest in April, accused the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, of trying to engineer a hostile takeover of the service. Mnuchin required members […]
After a California appeals court on Thursday halted a law requiring the reclassification of ride-hail drivers of Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc as employees, the decision over gig worker benefits and pay will likely be […]
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