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Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost
By late October, the devastation of so many halted productions was rippling through the release calendar, threatening to upend an entire season of broadcast television and the whole 2024 movie-release schedule.
The unions’ victory was unambiguous, and also established bulwarks to build upon in future negotiation.
#hollywood #entertainment #SagAftra #AMPTP #hollywood #labor #strike #union
Google contractors objected to reading obscene Bard prompts — now they’re unionizing #tech #labor #unions https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950392/google-contractors-accenture-obscene-bard-prompts-unionizing
To augment incomes, Filipino Gen Z-ers are working part-time in call centers and as virtual assistants.
#Philippines #Balita #InquirerPH #GenZ #Labor #Work #Jobs #Career #Filipino #Asian
https://business.inquirer.net/429648/moonlighting-now-the-norm-among-gen-zs
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The workers at Half Price Books are organizing for a living wage, and you can send a note of support for the workers to the company here: https://p2a.co/ua5jyxr
Writers Guild Reaches Tentative Agreement With Studios and Streamers, Union Tells Strike Captains
#Business #BusinessNews #AMPTP #Labor #WGA #WritersGuildofAmerica
You can help the UAW workers win a fair contract.
Leave a message for the Big Three CEOs - this UAW document tells you how to do it:
Today, I published an op-ed with Wired about #ChatGPT. Looking at the #history of technological developments and innovations for #engineers, we can see a long pattern where management and capital see opportunities to get rid of engineers or weaken their #labor power, try a new technology, and end up either making things worse or making engineering more powerful. https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-coding-software-crisis/
"This is the paradox that defines modern American medicine: Doctors are working harder and longer, all while patients can access us less. As a practicing internal medicine physician and oncologist, I believe we reached this unsustainable state due to fundamentally misaligned division of labor – between human and machine, between doctors and support staff, and between what is paid for and what good medical care requires."
https://time.com/6313270/doctors-overworked-patients-access/
When I say capitalism is what corporations will defend until they die, I'm not joking:
"Dozens of unions have lined up in support of the bill, while the California Chamber of Commerce and more than 130 business groups have expressed opposition."
I hope this passes and sets a strong precedent for other states.
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/california-senate-unemployment-pay-striking-workers-1235724062/
Labor Notes has published advice on how to support UAW auto workers on strike.
https://www.labornotes.org/2023/09/when-auto-workers-stand-heres-how-stand-them #labor #michigan #UAW
A really good piece by @the_verge “Never forget that when our labor isn’t valued, we have the power to withhold it. We have the fundamental power of a strike. The cost of a strike might be high, but the cost of doing nothing is much higher.” https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/14/23871914/uaw-auto-worker-strike-explained-big-three-ev-tesla #UAW #TheBig3 #Strike #Labor
Negotiations at Western are not going well. The association has asked the conciliator to file a "no-board report". Seventeen days after this report is filed (and assuming that a strike vote has been held), the librarians at UWO will be in a legal strike position.
https://www.uwofa.ca/librarians-archivists-bargaining-bulletin-vol-6-no-21/
#libraries #librarians #onpse #labor #labour #onpol #uwofala #uwofa #pse #cdnpse
The Worker as Futurist Project is an online workshop where rank-and-file Amazon workers develop short, speculative fiction about “the world after Amazon.”
https://reimaginingvalue.ca/waf
via https://jacobin.com/2023/09/amazon-workers-sci-fi-writing-bezos-imagination-speculative-future/
Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize
https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/walt-disney-pictures-vfx-workers-union-1235706136/
