The business community is scared shitless by the prospect of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) becoming law. They have conjured up images of aggress...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today voted to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment
Hanging over all of this are the twin factors of the economy and new media. The troubled economy will continue to harm the entertainment industry for some time to come.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
The AFL-CIO is pushing back hard against reports that a new union federation could pave the way to the reunification of the labor movement. Washingt...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
The right to organize independent labor unions and to collectively bargain is what built the American middle class. The Heritage Foundation would like to take away that right.
Karen Nussbaum | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Unemployment LifeLine.com brings workers together. It is a support structure, an online forum to provide a sense of community to those who are facing demoralizing realities.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment
Last year proved that time is not on SAG's side. Recall that the union's then-leadership wanted better terms in new media than the other Hollywood uni...
Eric Morse | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
As the recipient of a $50 billion tax-payer bailout, Citigroup has come under fire for its corporate spending practices, including a planned $10 million renovation of corporate office suites and a $7.7 million bonus for embattled CEO Vikram Pandit.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
SAG and AFTRA reached a deal with the advertising industry, retaining the compensation structure for broadcast network commercials, and resisting the industry's attempt to reduce pension and health contributions.
Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.
AP | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Labor leaders may have a friend in the White House, but they are turning to a fictional president to energize their push for a bill...
The Plum Line | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
The major unions are grabbing on to the ouster of General Motors chief Rick Wagoner to launch a campaign to pressure the Obama administration to engin...
Karen Nussbaum | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
It's time to remember it isn't just big corporations that are hurting in this economy. Let's let these Republican governors know they need to help make America work for working Americans.
Randy Shaw | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
President Obama harnessed the "Yes We Can " spirit in winning the presidency. He can now honor Cesar Chavez's legacy by giving farm workers federal labor protections at least equal to those afforded other workers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Congressional Democrats and labor officials pledged on Tuesday to push forward with the Employee Free Choice Act even as their best hope for a Republi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Labor leaders and Democratic officials are growing concerned that pressure placed on Sen. Arlen Specter to support the Employee Free Choice Act could ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment
Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks, SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract.
Beth Shulman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
President Obama should use the power of the presidency to ensure living wages in the jobs resulting from his initiatives. Pre-recession, 1/4 of jobs in the U.S. paid sub-poverty wages.
Jonah Lalas | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home
Many thousands of Filipinos answered Roosevelt's call to join the U.S. forces fighting Japan in the Philippines, but had been denied the benefits they were promised until last month.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Union leaders are talking about reuniting under a single, more powerful federation, nearly four years after a nasty breakup split o...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.29.2009 | Entertainment
Leno's case is a political hot potato, because it pits the power of a Hollywood guild against the even greater power of one of its prominent members.
Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
The Filipino veterans have received their due, but Asian workers have not. It is up Asian activists to continue to educate and politicize our youth.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild is besieged by bad news, and thanks to the misguided strategies of the previously-dominant hard-line faction, the union may be slipping towards irrelevance.
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
As if he wasn't dealing with enough this week, newly appointed Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) is coming in for heavy criticism from some of President Bar...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.16.2009 | Entertainment
Friday the 13th proved unlucky for SAG president Alan Rosenberg and his co-plaintiffs in their lawsuit against their own union.
Daniel Denvir | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics