Labor & Unions
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Hearst Union Delivers Strike Pledge Ahead of Contract Expiration
More than 85% of the Hearst Magazines Union joined the pledge ahead of Saturday’s contract expiration date
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Los Angeles Filming Sees Small End-of-Year Rebound Amidst 16% Drop in 2025
FilmLA reports that shoot days in the final quarter of the year increased 5.6% over the prior quarter, suggesting California’s tax credits are having an impact
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IFTA Appoints Jackie Brenneman as New President and CEO
The NATO veteran will take over for longtime IFTA President and CEO Jean Prewitt, who has held the position since 2000
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Animation Guild Scores Triple Win as DreamWorks, Netflix and ‘Ted’ Workers Vote to Unionize
“As a part of TAG, I’m excited for the opportunity we now have to represent ourselves as a unit,” Erin Sullivan, Netflix Animation Studios production coordinator, says
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SAG-AFTRA Unanimously Ratifies First-Ever Intimacy Coordinator Agreement
The tentative contract organizes intimacy coordinators under the union and guarantees presence for sex scenes, minimum rates
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SAG-AFTRA Shares 2026 Union Negotiations Are ‘to Begin Earlier Than Usual’
“The time has come, once again, to negotiate,” union president Sean Astin and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland write
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Crew Strikes for IATSE Contract on Sean Penn, Eric Swalwell-Produced ‘The Gun on Second Street’
Penn’s Projected Picture Works has pulled itself from the production as 40 crew workers seek a union contract
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WGA President Says Guild Has No ‘Preferred Winner’ in WBD Bidding War: ‘Whoever Wins, Writers Lose’
“This is us looking at this as a massive antirust issue where we believe the government really needs to step in,” Michele Mulroney adds
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Dozens of New Yorker Staffers Protest Netflix Doc Red Carpet Over Condé Nast’s Alleged ‘Union Busting’
“We won’t stop fighting until our colleagues are reinstated,” the New Yorker Union says
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Los Angeles Times Journalists Approve New Guild Contract After 3 Years of Negotiations
“It should not have taken this long to get here,” Matt Hamilton, the unit chair and Times reporter, says
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YouTube Studio Theorist Media Moves to Unionize With Motion Picture Editors Guild, WGA West
The organizing efforts seek to protect creatives across editing, writing, sound design, thumbnail graphics and digital production
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A Warner Bros. Sale Could Kill Even More Jobs. How Will Hollywood Labor Respond?
Writers Guild of America opposes a merger with another studio, but several other unions have yet to speak out
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SAG-AFTRA’s Sean Astin Condemns Sora 2’s ‘Opt-Out’ Copyright Model: ‘Threatens the Economic Foundation of Our Entire Industry’
The newly elected union president also dismisses AI “actress” Tilly Norwood as a “synthetic construct” in a Thursday memo to members
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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Rejected by More Acting Unions as ‘Nothing but Lines of Code’
Canada’s ACTRA union and the U.K.’s Equity join SAG-AFTRA in denouncing the suggestion that the “actress” could replace human performers
