Labor
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Nickelodeon Animation Workers Ratify Guild Contract by 89% for Wage Increases, Staffing Minimums
The ratification comes after nearly a year of negotiations with the Animation Guild and combines 2D, 3D and production workers into one contract
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Hollywood’s Slow Post-Strike Comeback Is Creating a Crisis of Morale
“We have a generation of people who have never seen anything like this in terms of not working,” Lindsay Dougherty of Teamsters Local 399 says
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IATSE Says ‘No Reason These Companies Can’t Build in More Protections’ as Health Plan Talks Begin
The Guild is negotiating jointly with Teamsters and Basic Crafts unions for a new studio pension and health plan
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New York Times Management Denies Union’s Accusations of a ‘Racially Targeted Witch Hunt’ Over Oct. 7 Story Leak
The labor group representing NYT journalists called on the paper to “cease” the internal investigation into who shared information on a shelved episode of “The Daily”
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WGA East Names Sam Wheeler as Executive Director
The former attorney previously served as executive director of the American Guild of Musical Artists
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Studios Reach Deal With Musicians’ Union, Including Streaming Residuals, AI Guardrails
The labor group says it’s “secured historic breakthroughs” and “gained meaningful wage increases”
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Vice Media Staffers ‘Scramble’ After Receiving Tip That Website Will Shutter, Layoffs Coming
Employees who spoke with TheWrap expect they will hear about layoffs prior to an announcement of the site closing
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Animation Guild Becomes First Hollywood Union to Call for Gaza Cease-Fire
The guild announces it has signed a labor movement petition that also calls for Hamas to release hostages
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SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Reach Tentative Deal on Animation Contracts
The bargaining agreements for TV and feature film animation will face a ratification vote pending guild board approval
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Legal News Service Law360 Lays Off 10% of Newsroom Staff
Unionized editorial staffers staged a one-day strike against parent company LexisNexis in December
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NowThis Lays Off 50% of Staff to ‘Realign Our Resources and Structure’
TikTok team leader Mike Madden, senior writer PJ Evans and senior producer Jasmine Amjad have all been impacted
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IATSE Forms Anti-Harassment Committee for Low Budget Productions
Below-the-line union sets new measures to implement the Hollywood Commission’s Respect on Set program
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The Intercept Lays Off 15 Staffers, Including the Nonprofit Investigative Site’s Editor-in-Chief
“To become sustainable, we need to make some changes — which unfortunately include 15 staff reductions” management says in an internal memo
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After the Strikes, How Can Hollywood Restore Trust?
TheWrap asked people in Hollywood how the industry can heal from the strikes, and not everyone thought that was an issue
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DreamWorks Production Workers to Join Animation Guild
Eight production workers on the upcoming “Stranger Things” animated series will also unionize with the IATSE local
