Labor
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WGA East Names Sam Wheeler as Executive Director
The former attorney previously served as executive director of the American Guild of Musical Artists
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Studios Reach Deal With Musicians’ Union, Including Streaming Residuals, AI Guardrails
The labor group says it’s “secured historic breakthroughs” and “gained meaningful wage increases”
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Vice Media Staffers ‘Scramble’ After Receiving Tip That Website Will Shutter, Layoffs Coming
Employees who spoke with TheWrap expect they will hear about layoffs prior to an announcement of the site closing
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Animation Guild Becomes First Hollywood Union to Call for Gaza Cease-Fire
The guild announces it has signed a labor movement petition that also calls for Hamas to release hostages
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SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Reach Tentative Deal on Animation Contracts
The bargaining agreements for TV and feature film animation will face a ratification vote pending guild board approval
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Legal News Service Law360 Lays Off 10% of Newsroom Staff
Unionized editorial staffers staged a one-day strike against parent company LexisNexis in December
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NowThis Lays Off 50% of Staff to ‘Realign Our Resources and Structure’
TikTok team leader Mike Madden, senior writer PJ Evans and senior producer Jasmine Amjad have all been impacted
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IATSE Forms Anti-Harassment Committee for Low Budget Productions
Below-the-line union sets new measures to implement the Hollywood Commission’s Respect on Set program
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The Intercept Lays Off 15 Staffers, Including the Nonprofit Investigative Site’s Editor-in-Chief
“To become sustainable, we need to make some changes — which unfortunately include 15 staff reductions” management says in an internal memo
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After the Strikes, How Can Hollywood Restore Trust?
TheWrap asked people in Hollywood how the industry can heal from the strikes, and not everyone thought that was an issue
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DreamWorks Production Workers to Join Animation Guild
Eight production workers on the upcoming “Stranger Things” animated series will also unionize with the IATSE local
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More Hollywood Union Contract Talks Lie Ahead, and Strikes Are Not Off the Table
Like WGA and SAG-AFTRA, streaming and artificial intelligence are key issues for unions like IATSE and Teamsters 399
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CBS News Digital Unionizes With Writers Guild of America East
“When we work together to address these issues, we are stronger as employees and it will make for a better product and workplace,” the union writes to management
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Workers at Entertainment Site IGN Vote to Unionize
The newly formed IGN Creators Guild will consist of over 80 employees
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Snap to Lay Off 10% of Workforce Amid Industry Job Cuts
Cuts at Snapchat’s parent company come after layoffs across at Google, Microsoft and Amazon