AFL-CIO on Thursday called for the Senate to abolish the filibuster if it prevents Democrats from moving forward with a pro-worker agenda. “For decades, working people have paid the price for corporate-first government,” said AFL-CIO President […]
“Right-to-work laws proliferated across the Midwest in the mid-2000s,” writes Olivia Pascal in TruthOut. “But their roots are in the Jim Crow South, in the milieu of anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism wielded by rich white Southerners and their […]
“In the hardest year, Hollywood’s unions had their finest hour,” writes David Robb in Deadline Hollywood. “Together and separately, they navigated those first uncertain days of the entertainment industry shutdown a year ago this week […]
“What does our union ever do for us?” This is a question I’ve been asked on various occasions. […]
Post-production employees of Vice Media, Inc. have overwhelmingly ratified a Motion Picture Editors Guild union contract. The agreement addresses employee’s concerns over pay and job security, and also breaks new ground on the topic of gender and use of pronouns. […]
According to Los Angeles Teachers union President Cecily Myart-Cruz on Friday night, 91% of the union’s members voted to stay out of classrooms until the union’s demands are met. A total of 24,850 UTLA members cast ballots, she said. […]
“One thing I’ve come to learn about this industry is that mentors are everywhere.” […]
When it was passed in 1935, the National Labor Relations Act declared that its purpose was to promote the practice of collective bargaining, where workers and their union sit down with their employer to negotiate over wages, safety, fairness […]
The Art Directors Guild announced the nominations for the 25th ADG Awards for production design, which will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 10. The nominees for a period film are Mank, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mulan […]
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 […]
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