“When we were talking with workers, they just wanted to get back to the cockroaches, how the studio owner charges them for toilet paper or makes them work when they’re on their period. I couldn’t get people to talk to me about platforms, and that’s completely valid because of course you are mad at the […]
Tensions over The Animation Guild‘s controversial new tentative contract spilled into public view on Tuesday as the ratification vote for the deal began. Three members of the union’s negotiating committee posted on social media that they personally will be voting “no” on the tentative contract that they helped to bargain, primarily due to concerns about […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is opening an investigation into labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, impacting relations with a country the U.S. has a free trade deal with amid growing concerns over President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The investigation being opened by the U.S. Trade Representative must be completed within a year. […]
On paper, it sounds like the worst idea ever: Round up a bunch of cutthroat Hollywood agents, put them in a windowless, soundproof room and give them guns and ammo. Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Courtesy Everett Collection As it happens, though, The Range L.A., a new members-only shooting club in West Los Angeles, just off […]
KG of VCHA Courtesy of JYP Entertainment JYP USA Inc., a stateside branch of billion-dollar K-pop company JYP Entertainment that’s delivered some of the scene’s most successful and internationally recognized artists, was sued in Los Angeles county court on Friday, December 6, by Tracey Madder, a guardian representing a minor reference in the court documents […]
IATSE and the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing indie producers, have reached a tentative deal for film set trailers and craft service workers in Ontario, a key production hub for Hollywood. The new deal adds to a stable labor environment for American and local producers that shoot in Canada over a year after the Hollywood actors and […]
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Onstage and backstage workers at the Casa Bonita immersive restaurant, owned by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have voted unanimously to unionize with Actors’ Equity Association and IATSE Local 7, it was announced Friday. “Today, we are proud that we stood as a group and said clearly: We want to make Casa […]
This summer, I asked both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party for the chance to speak at their respective conventions.
Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison labor is acceptable? The state Constitution (like its federal counterpart) has long outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude except “to punish crime.” Maybe voters thought prisoners should be made […]
