In its campaign to organize non-union employers, the Editors Guild has many tools and tactics. In some instances, employees withhold their labor in order to convince non-union employers to agree to union deals. […]
When we fight and win, we do so not because we have statutes or courts on our side, but because we have the extralegal strength that comes from steadfast solidarity among co-workers. […]
Where they have been enacted, “Right to Work” laws discourage union membership. Their object was, and remains, the evisceration of organized labor. […]
Almost two years ago, I met a lot of new friends and reconnected with many old ones walking the picket line in support of the striking crew of Shahs of Sunset. That strike afforded plenty of […]
In early October of this year, a group of employees at Leftfield Entertainment, a large reality television production company in New York, faced such a choice, set more or less explicitly in just such terms. And, only a few weeks earlier, the employees of Deluxe Culver City, an LA-area post-production facility, made effectively the same choice themselves, albeit not as explicitly framed. […]
What makes you a Guild member? Is it principally about a transaction, the remittance of quarterly payments for membership? Or is it about your relationship to your colleagues, […]
Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema (DTDC) have voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Editors Guild! […]
Post-production employees working on video for Vice Media have now won union representation! On Thursday, the company officially recognized the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, as the representative for its East Coast employees working in post on the company’s digital content […]
The folks who craft trailers make regular use of a particular species of musical cue: a sustained droning growl of a note, signaling looming menace. […]
Deciding to organize in the workplace is itself a kind of resolution — one appropriate for the new year or any other time a change is warranted. […]
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