The worker misclassification fight over whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor is not new. For decades, employers have been misclassifying their workers, often to save money on […]
“After four years of relentless lying and distortion from the Trump administration, designed to incite his supporters to violence, we assessed that it was possible that a mass action in the streets could become necessary,” says a letter published in Labor Notes. […]
EPI economists offer their initial insights on the May jobs report. While they see strong growth in employment, including in leisure and hospitality, the US labor market is still facing a large jobs shortfall. Relief and recovery measures […]
New Hampshire Teamsters are celebrating a state House vote Friday night that rejected so-called right-to-work legislation that would have weakened workers and their unions in the Granite State, a long-time goal of corporations and their […]
IATSE and management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have wrapped up their third week of bargaining for a new film and TV contract covering the union’s 13 West Coast production locals, including its three national […]
The production companies and executive producers behind Z Nation have been placed on the WGA’s Strike/Unfair List for allegedly failing to pay more than $5.1 million in residuals, pension and health contributions, and interest owed […]
With inflation hitting the US economy at large, Hollywood is feeling the impact of it on its film and television production. The rising demand and sluggish supply of building materials is hampering the entertainment industry’s ability […]
General Internet searching is not enough. Companies manipulate what shows up first on a general Internet search. Often you have to weed through hundreds of pages of marginal information before you get to real substantive information on […]
“This wasn’t your average picket line,” writes Paul Prescod in Jacobin. “’It’s up to Walt to call the halt,’ read a striking worker’s picket sign beside a picture of Mickey Mouse. Another featured an image of Pinocchio saying, ‘There are no strings on me.’ […]
“A consistent theme of the postmortems on the failed union drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama,” write Alex Hanand Adam Ryan in The Nation, “is that the organizers just weren’t ready to take on the tech behemoth. […]
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