To mark Nurses Week, registered nurses from across California will pay online visits to state legislators on Tuesday, May 11 and Wednesday, May 12, to advocate in support of bills that advance the work of nurses and protect public health […]
Some 50,000 session musicians and background singers will be sharing more than $70 million in royalties collected by the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund – the largest distribution in the fund’s history. […]
“Just over 100 days into his presidency Joe Biden is showing that he is one of the most pro-union presidents in American history,” writes Steven Greenhouse in The Guardian, “declaring the ‘unions built the middle class’ in his address to a joint […]
A new California law directing employers to provide benefits to more workers applies to truck drivers, a federal court ruled Wednesday as it overturned a previous decision that had allowed them to operate as independent contractors. […]
In lieu of its traditional awards luncheon this year, which was canceled because of the pandemic, the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, have raised more than $60,000 to support the guild’s […]
Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) on Monday threw his support behind the PRO Act, union-backed legislation to promote labor organizing. The PRO Act would block “right-to-work” laws, which allow people who benefit from union […]
Five days after The Hollywood Reporter published an exposé of mega-producer Scott Rudin’s alleged workplace misconduct, performers’ unions SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 have condemned illegal […]
“Labor activists hoped that the unionization vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse would be a turning point, a reversal in the decades-long trend of union decline,” writes Paul Krugman in The New York Times. “What the vote showed […]
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, which attempted to organize the nearly 6,000 Bessemer workers, said Friday that it is formally filing unfair labor practice charges against Amazon, accusing the corporate giant of “lies […]
Federal labor officials are expected to begin counting the votes Thursday or Friday in a closely watched union election by Amazon.com Inc. workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who are seeking to become the first company employees […]
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