Labor & Unions
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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
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DGA Calls on Members to Report Censorship After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
“We understand that these issues go beyond the suspension of one late night program,” the union states
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DreamWorks Animation Union Set to Add Remote Workers
The Animation Guild-affiliated union also ratifies a new contract for production workers
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WGA West Names Officers, Board Members After 2025 Elections
Vice President Travis Donnelly and Secretary-Treasurer Peter Murrieta will serve alongside incoming President Michele Mulroney
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Hollywood Teamsters Condemn Kimmel Shutdown as ‘Greed-Fueled Consolidation of Corporate Power’
“Corporations are selling out working families and our American freedoms to amass even greater wealth,” the union says
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‘Hazbin Hotel’ Studio SpindleHorse Among Latest Additions to IATSE’s Animation Union Wave
Production workers from Netflix Animation Studios and the Peacock series “Ted” have also voted to join The Animation Guild
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Sean Astin Elected SAG-AFTRA President
The longtime board and negotiating committee member follows in the footsteps of his mother and SAG president Patty Duke
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Lemonada Media Ratifies 3-Year WGA Contract Locking $70,000 Minimum Salary
Other highlights include annual pay increases and 12 weeks’ minimum severance
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Matthew Loeb Secures Another Term as IATSE International President at Union Convention
The former scenic artist, who has been at the helm of the organization since 2008, was appointed Thursday along with several other union leaders













