WASHINGTON — Union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the nation's work force last year, amid widespread job losses and credit woes. The rank...
Geri Spieler | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
Reducing an experienced editorial staff is not the way to go about cutting business costs. When quality suffers, the entire industry is tarnished.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment
Last week's flap over politicization of the SAG Awards seems so, well, last week, that it was almost a blast from the past to finally receive a reply from SAG board member Frances Fisher.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment
As I left the site of the meeting at SAG's LA headquarters at about 2:00 a.m., food arrived, suggesting more long hours for the sleep-deprived board.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment
The SAG National Board meeting began this morning at 9:00 a.m. accompanied by light informational leafleting from pro and con sources. The meeting is expected to be contentious.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business
How well was I qualified to become Auto Czar? Well, that depends on how you look at it. Sometimes ignorance itself can be a qualification.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment
The strike authorization vote may get canceled altogether--or it might not. In light of this uncertainty, it's still critical to ask whether a strike authorization and possible strike make sense.
Michael Whitney | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
What prompted the usually greedy Grinch to give more than half a billion dollars to its employees? It must've been a passing wind of Christmas Cheer, right? No.
Joan Blades | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Why not convert one third of the automakers' industrial capacity to building state-of-the-art wind generation? We need to be strategic in solving our economic and energy woes.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.
Dave Belden | Posted 01.19.2009 | Home
Keynesians listen up: if all workers were paid what they are legally owed (let's not even get to what they're morally owed for a minute--that's more c...
Elana Levin | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Some of my colleagues have worked with her for decades. She has a deep and personal connection with working Americans that stems from decades working to help workers get their rights.
Trevor Traina | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business
Vehicle manufacturers must re-engage their owners and offer them innovative services. What if GM included ads in exchange for lower pricing? What if they developed an in-dash system with Google or Apple?
Steve Parker | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business
Even Bush doesn't want to go down in history as the man who oversaw the destruction of GM, Ford and Chrysler (I hope), and I'd guess Obama wishes he could install his own new team now and fire Paulson.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.17.2009 | Entertainment
There've been a lot of developments at SAG in the last few days. What do they all mean? I'll examine that question in a free conference call, open to the public, this Thursday
Stewart Acuff | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
If our movement does not produce at this moment in history, folks my age will probably never see this kind of opportunity action.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business
Once upon a time on a distant planet there was a nation that looked a lot like ours -- we'll call it Autopia. They were indeed much like us, only with some things backwards.
Art Levine | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame game for the troubled auto industry and the failed bailout deal.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
The reception in New York couldn't have been more different than in Los Angeles last week -- it's clear that this is now a union in open civil war.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment
Citing the economy, over 130 A-listers "strongly" urged SAG members not to authorize a strike, and instead "take the high road ... three years down the line ... make a great deal."
August J. Pollak | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
A little change of wording turns right-wingers around on the auto bailout. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," ch...
Anna Burger | Posted 01.12.2009 | Home
With news that unemployment claims have reached a 26-year high and Congress' continuing failure to reach a compromise to save millions of jobs and Ame...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild just announced that strike authorization ballots will be mailed Friday, January 2 and will be due back and tabulated three wee...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
A month and a half ago, SAG and AFTRA signed an agreement not to disparage each other, with significant fines apparently being the consequence for vio...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment
I think you'll find this useful if you want to understand the issues, rather than just listen to slogans and each side's self-interested positioning.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics