After four weeks of bargaining, IATSE’s negotiations with management’s AMPTP for a new film and TV contract have broken off with no deal and “very little progress” toward reaching one, union officials said on Friday. […]
IATSE and management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers started their fourth week of bargaining Tuesday, already having made substantial progress on diversity issues. It’s been tougher […]
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 […]
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 […]
“In the US about 12 percent of workers are unionized, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” writes Eriq Gardner in The Hollywood Reporter. “In Hollywood, it’s nearly everyone, even though workers largely operate on a project basis […]
The union representing the Metropolitan Opera’s chorus staved off calls for a 30-percent reduction in payroll costs that the company had said it needed to survive the pandemic. But the contract it tentatively agreed to will save the Met millions […]
The promises and threats that new technologies pose for workers in the entertainment industry were explored Friday at the Labor Innovation & Technology Summit, hosted by SAG-AFTRA and the AFL-CIO. The role of unions, said […]
Chicago Teachers Union delegates have agreed to ask all 25,000 members to vote on a tentative reopening deal with Chicago Public Schools. The majority of the 600-member House of Delegates voted Monday evening in favor of sending […]
“The labor movement’s pundits and prognosticators ring in the New Year like commentators anywhere,” write Rand Wilson and Peter Olney in Labor Notes. “They make pronouncements about what ‘will’ happen and what ‘should’ happen […]
Nowhere is the tension between labor and management more acute than at the Metropolitan Opera, the largest performing arts organization in the nation. Its artists and other workers, many of whom have been furloughed without pay […]
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