LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Thursday, April 11, 2024
Top Stories: After 18 months, striking Teamsters settle; New Jersey Apple store may unionize; Chicago Teachers Union demands; Hollywood having an AI festival & 53 more articles below the fold
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After 18 months, Teamsters, Post-Gazette reach strike settlement
One of five unions that has been on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 18 months has agreed to settle with the company.
Apple Store in New Jersey Files to Unionize in Renewed Effort
An Apple Inc. retail store in the upscale town of Short Hills, New Jersey, has petitioned to unionize, marking the first such effort after a yearlong lull.
Chicago Teachers Union contract demands about politics, bosses’ power
A 142-page leaked document contains hundreds of Chicago Teachers Union contract demands, from 100% abortion coverage to pay for surrogates, from housing students in old schools to a fleet of electric school buses. Then there are 180 more of the union’s favored, failing schools.
Is Post-Strike Hollywood Really Ready for an AI Film Festival?
There's a line stand-up comedians often turn to when a joke about controversial news hits a raw nerve: "What, too soon?"
In Hollywood, that same question might apply to Runway's AI Film Festival, coming to Los Angeles May 1 and New York City on May 9. After long and contentious Hollywood strikes by the WGA West and SAG-AFTRA unions last year -- in which actor and writer protections against the use of AI were a central issue -- is it too soon to ask the industry to embrace a festival celebrating AI technology?
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