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SAG Challenge Slate to Oppose Hardliners

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Membership First, Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Hollywood News, United for Strength, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

A slate called Unite for Strength has arisen to challenge the Membership First faction of the SAG Board. But the slate doesn't have any A-list stars on it, which reduces its chances of successfully wresting control of the Board.

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Together We Marched in Solidarity

Dolores Huerta | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, Health Care Workers, Strike, Labor, Labor Unions, Unions, Politics News
Dolores Huerta

For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have fought for justice for California's workers. But now, these same sisters are refusing to show their own workers the same justice they once fought for.

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Screen Actors Guild (SAG) commentary

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Strike, Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

No deal yet between SAG and the studios. This video commentary explores why.

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Screen Actors Guild: What's Next?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Strike, Sag, Amptp, SAG Strike, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Hollywood's quiet today. Still, with the studios' "final offer" on the table, the natural question is, what happens next -- and will there be a strike?

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AMPTP Makes Final Offer to SAG

Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Strike, Sag, Amptp, Dga, Screen Actors Guild, Labor Unions, Wga, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

I'm advised by a AMPTP spokesman that this offer tracks the AFTRA and DGA/WGA deals in terms of minimums, new media, and other provisions.

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Hillary Supporters: Which Side Are You On?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Every time I visit an unabashedly pro-Hillary website and read the comments posted thereon, I keep thinking: Which side are you on?

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Blogs Brought Attention To The Security Guard Strike

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Inter-Con, Strike, Labor, Media, Kaiser Permanente, Seiu, Media News
Dave Johnson

Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the plight of security guards working for a company called Inter-Con, a contractor at Kaiser Permane...

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Apathy Doesn't Live in the Bronx

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Strike, Bronx, Unions, Activism, Protest, Students Protest No Child Left Behind, Standardized Testing, South Bronx Student Protest, Living News
Allison Kilkenny

Last Wednesday more than 160 students in the South Bronx refused to take another standardized test. They are sick of being dragged out of their classrooms to be treated as lab rats in the No Child Left Behind rotten matrix.

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Kaiser Security Guard Strike

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Labor, Inter-Con, Strike, Kaiser Permanente, Unions, Seiu, Business News
Dave Johnson

This week I wrote about the Kaiser Permanente / Inter-Con Security Security Guard strike. The post Security Guards Striking for the Right to Have Our...

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Unions: Sticking Together to Fight Corporate Power

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Strike, Unions, Kaiser Permanente, Labor, Seiu, Business News
Dave Johnson

Companies classifying workers as "temporary" or "contractors" is one of the bigger scams that is going on these days.

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Hollywood Actors - What Now?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aftra, Negotiations, Strike, Screen Actors Guild, Sag, Amptp, Labor Unions, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

The Screen Actors Guild contract talks collapsed Tuesday. The industry can't afford a second full-blown, extended work stoppage this year, whether from a strike, a lockout, or some ill-defined hybrid.

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Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

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Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports To Protest the War

JB Powell | Posted 05.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Ilwu, Oakland Dock Strike, Strike, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Strike, Iraq War Strike, May Day Antiwar Strike, May Day Iraq War, Dockworkers Cindy Sheehan, West Coast Dock Strike, May Day Peace Strike, Cindy Sheehan, May Day Workers, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Home News
JB Powell

The West Coast Dockworkers peace strike had a different edge, reminiscent of the days when the labor movement could and would affect this country's daily business to get its points across.

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Workers' May Day Protest Site Disabled

JB Powell | Posted 04.29.2008 | Home

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JB Powell

One of the May Day strike organizers says Google "came to their senses" because people "from around the world started emailing them and protesting this egregious violation of free speech."

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Le Monde Stops The Presses

The Guardian | Gwladys Fouché | Posted 04.16.2008 | Media

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Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, will not be on newsstands tomorrow for a second time this week after staff today voted to strike over proposal...

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SAG Talks Start Today

Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Screen Actors Guild Strike, Aftra, Screen Actors Guild, Strike, Sag, Breaking Entertainment News, Amptp, Actors, Hollywood Writers Strike, Hollywood Strike, Hollywood, SAG Strike, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Most movie and television production is currently scheduled to cease by mid- to late June, to avoid the risk of actors walking off set and shutting down on an active production.

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SAG Thinks, Blinks

Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment

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Jonathan Handel

The Screen Actors Guild bowed to the inevitable yesterday and set a concrete date -- April 15 -- for commencement of talks with the studios.

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Workers Strike at Nike Contract Factory

AP | VU TIEN HONG | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

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HANOI, Vietnam — More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike Inc., demandin...

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Huckabee: I'm for the Troops...er, I Mean, the Writers!

Michael Seitzman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Strike, Amptp, Huckabee, Iowa, Iowa Caucuses, Presidential Primaries, Wga, Huckabee WGA, Huckabee Picket Line, Huckabee Writers' Strike, Politics News
Michael Seitzman

Right after the "Christian leader" told the press that he's "for the writers," he drove right past those same unemployed writers, in the middle of a massive labor dispute, in order to pursue his own political ambitions.

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The Place Where the GOP Thinks It's OK to Hate Workers

David Sirota | Posted 12.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: Strike, Bill Ritter, Shawn Mitchell, Right to Work, Unions, Rocky Mountain West, Colorado, Politics News
David Sirota

If ever there was a single newspaper story that showed just how much today's Republican Party hates working people, this Rocky Mountain News story is ...

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Broadway Stagehands Keep On Striking

AP | Michael Kuchwara | Posted 11.11.2007 | Business

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It was a second day of dark Broadway theaters and disappointed audiences as striking stagehands reaffirmed their commitment Sunday to remain off the j...

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The Strike Diary

John Ridley | Posted 11.05.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Script Validation, Writers Guild of America, HuffPost Strike Diary, Strike, Strike Diary, Writers' Strike Opinion, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Script Validation Program, Entertainment News
John Ridley

What's most interesting to me is that neither side seems to feel the writer as an individual can protect their own creative property when it is in their possession.

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It's "Only" Words

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.03.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Strike, Daily Show, Craigslist.com, Jon Stewart, Fred Thompson, New York Times, Guild, Stephen Colbert, Brian Kiley, Hollywood, Conan O'Brien, Writers Guild, Strike Opinion, Writers' Strike Opinion, Entertainment News
Carol Hoenig

I wonder what would happen if all writers, from novelists to bloggers, decided to join in the strike. With that thought in mind, does my blogging without compensation make me part of the problem?

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Strike Fears Grow As Hollywood Labor Talks Break Down

Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier | Posted 10.06.2007 | Business

Read More: Movie Business, Film Industry, Labor Talks, Films, Writers Writers Guild of America, Organized Labor, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Strike, Movies, Business News

Halloween is looking scarier than ever for Hollywood. Studio executives and representatives of the Writers Guild of America abruptly ended talks Frid...

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Small Change

Bob Franken | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Strike, GM Strike, UAW Strike, Politics News
Bob Franken

It was nice to see my peeps in Little Rock have their congratulatory Central High School homecoming reunion yesterday, but after 50 years, enlightenment is a long way off.

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