The WGA … reached a June 30 agreement on a three-year TV/theatrical deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, topping off a triennial negotiating cycle like none in recent memory … with ballots due July 22. […]
“The underlying problem is a punishing 2006 law requiring USPS to prefund its retiree medical benefits 75 years in advance,” writes Alexandra Bradbury in Labor Notes. “This onerous requirement … makes it look like the postal service […]
Close to 600 front-of-house cinema workers in Quebec have overwhelmingly ratified a new agreement with Cineplex that will institute some uniformity across 10 cinemas. For the first time, all 10 agreements will terminate at the same point […]
The US has the worst record among major developed countries when it comes to workers’ rights, according to a survey of labor unions. The world’s largest economy is ranked a 4 in a scale by the International Trade Union Congress, meaning there […]
UTA co-president Jay Sures just sent an email [to Deadline Hollywood] confirming the deal with the WGA — and it’s a labor-relations whopper. “After many long discussions and significant work by both sides, we’ve successfully found […]
“Compared to non-union workers, union members have higher wages and smaller gender and racial wage disparities,” writes Matthew Rozca in Salon. “Now, a new research paper finds that stronger labor unions have an anti-racist side effect: white union members feel less racial resentment against Blacks than their non-union counterparts. The paper published in the American Journal of Political Science, called […]
Employees at Santa Monica-based KCRW-FM, which airs news and music from Santa Barbara to Palm Springs, have completed their first collective bargaining agreement, the latest action in a growing move in public radio and podcasting to unionize. The group We Are KCRW said in a tweet Thursday that it had reached a tentative agreement on a […]
“We hope that our industry will be able to celebrate other landmarks of diversity in the days ahead.” […]
The film is about a campaign to organize workers in a union, while exploring hip-hop culture, the obstacles to black success in America, how capitalism crushes the soul, and how corporations have a dark secret to hide. […]
“The streaming companies are excelling like crazy,” Repola said during the Zoom call. “Movies and TV shows will continue to be made … It will happen.” […]
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