Cartoon Network & WB Animation staff file to unionize (www.polygon.com)
DoorDash fired an employee for trying to organize a union, NLRB alleges (www.theverge.com)
[In These Times] Workers at The Trevor Project unionize (inthesetimes.com)
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N.J. nurses vote to strike, reject hospital’s settlement (www.nj.com)
Nurses voted to strike Monday night, seeking greater hiring, pay hikes and more
Career advice: should I give this interviewer a second chance?
Yesterday I had an interview for a certain position. Last Monday it had been scheduled for one location but on Friday it got moved to another. At the last minute yesterday, apparently it had gotten switched to the original interview location, and I was not notified until I got to that second location and waited a few minutes. I...
OSHA protections don’t apply to 96 percent of the animal agriculture operations that hire workers in America (i.imgur.com)
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Landlord Hires Three Men To Break Into Tenant's Apartment and Threaten Her to Settle Dispute. Isn't Arrested. (www.wmtw.com)
Leslie Jones Speaks On The Actors and Writers Hollywood Strike (youtube.com)
Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what it's like to be behind the tip screen (www.npr.org)
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Writers Requesting David Zaslav Pay Up on Lost Wages via Venmo (www.themarysue.com)
Writers found David Zaslav's Venmo and successfully interrupted his time at billionaire summer camp with payment requests for lost wages.
[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements (www.texastribune.org)
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Wabtec workers, day 23 on strike against a company that refuses to cover workers' basic needs (Photo credit: "UE Members 506" FB) (lemmy.world)
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Hollywood Shuts Down After 160,000 Actors Walk Off the Set (youtu.be)
[Galveston Daily News] La Marque UPS workers rally for better conditions as strike looms (www.galvnews.com)
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Jamie Dimon says employees can go work somewhere else if they don't like long commutes into the office, thinks remote work doesn't cut it (www.businessinsider.com)
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...
Google lays off contractors who unionized last month. Suspecting retaliation, the discharged workers have begun a hearing with the NLRB. (www.engadget.com)
Genshin Impact Voice Actors Say They Haven't Been Paid In Months (www.gamespot.com)
Despite the game's massive profits, its voice actors say they aren't getting paid, with some even choosing to leave their roles.
Hollywood actors’ union recommends strike as talks deadline passes (www.theguardian.com)
Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US (www.theverge.com)
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Hollywood Actors Set to Join Writers on Strike After Contract Expires (www.wsj.com)
Screen Actors Guild ends negotiations over new contract with studios
Hundreds of thousands of actors will go on strike Wednesday night if negotiations with studios are not reached by midnight. (lemmy.worldhttps)
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I got banned from the Reddit sub for asking about union related materials for distribution.
Are the same petty mods running this show? If so, please ban me immediately. I don’t see how you can reconcile claiming to fight labor exploitation while at the same time giving away your labor for free to a billion dollar company.
Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks (deadline.com)
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”...
[WIS News] Garners Ferry Road Waffle House workers on strike for better working conditions (www.wistv.com)
“Those customers could have had guns on them they could have decided to start shooting. Just out of nowhere just started pouring stuff into their containers and just throw it behind the counters....
