trade unions
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Amazon’s New York Union Drive Might Be Coming at Just the Right Time
Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays, transcended political affiliation. 89% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans…
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Hollywood’s IATSE Votes to Ratify Its New Contract, But Controversy Remains
After simmering tensions between studios and one of the biggest unions in the industry that threatened potential strike action last month, IATSE has ratified a new union contract after months of negotiations. But the vote also exposes just how divided IATSE’s members were over the new deal, which critics say doesn’t go far enough in…
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IATSE Reaches a Deal on Film and TV Contract, With Mixed Reception
Earlier this week, we reported that the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) were set to strike — just one of many going on recently, as it turns out — as conversations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were coming to a standstill. The plan was for the trade union…
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Chaotic Vigilante App Citizen Might Get a Union, and the Bosses Aren’t Happy
Employees of Citizen, the app that dispatches rogue nightcrawlers to broadcast crime scenes, are unionizing. As Vice first reported, a National Labour Relations Board filing shows that 69 employees from the on-brand “Central Ops Department” have petitioned to join Communications Workers of America (CWA).