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Workers at Major D.C. Concert Venues Launch Unionization Effort
There are more than 300 staff members aiming to unionize at the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre.
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Lindsay Dougherty Re-Elected Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 399
The incumbent won nearly 71 percent of the vote in an election that concluded on Friday and saw Joshua Staheli elected president.
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SAG-AFTRA Gets in the Verticals Game
The union will be circulating a new agreement for microdramas with budgets under $300,000 later this month.
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Los Angeles Times Journalists Authorize a Strike
Eighty-five percent of participating members voted to empower the newsroom union to call a potential work stoppage.
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Exiting Directors Guild President Signs Off With Memo on “Massive Transition” Ahead for Hollywood
Lesli Linka Glatter gestured to widespread unemployment, generative AI and a rapidly changing business as she passed the reins to new union leader Christopher Nolan.
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Commercial Production Workers Ratify First Union Contract
Applying to around 5,000 professionals who produce ads, the agreement tackles turnaround times, health plan access and safety procedures.
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AI-Generated Actress Tilly Norwood Slammed by Canadian Performers Union as “Nothing But Lines of Code”
ACTRA's comments come after similar statements from U.S. actors union SAG-AFTRA and U.K. acting union Equity.
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SAG-AFTRA Slams AI Actress: “Tilly Norwood Is Not an Actor — It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion”
"It doesn’t solve any 'problem' — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing livelihoods and devaluing human artistry," the union has said in a statement.
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Directors Guild Promotes Mitchell Schwenz to Executive in Charge of Communications
The union is expanding Schwenz’s purview ahead of the union’s 2026 negotiations with Hollywood studios and streamers.
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Legislators to Trump: Consider a Federal Film and TV Tax Credit Instead
Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, who are both attempting to pull together bipartisan bills proposing such an incentive, were quick to respond to the president on Monday.
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Remote DreamWorks Staffers Attempt to Unionize With Animation Guild
Around 75 people who work on L.A.-based projects are endeavoring to join the IATSE Local in order to “regain the same health care, retirement plans, and protections my coworkers enjoy,” says one staffer.
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Writers Guild West Election Results: New Leaders Now Must Confront “Shrinking Iceberg” of Jobs
President-elect Michele Mulroney and new board members Mike Royce and Molly Nussbaum have pushed for the union to expand outside its traditional jurisdiction and to empower writers to reject unpaid labor.
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