LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Monday, July 29, 2024
Top Stories: Video Game actors are on strike; Hollywood's Basic Crafts get a last-minute deal; Largest U.S. union threatens staffers' healthcare & 67 more articles under the fold...
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Here are today’s Top Stories…
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Video game actors are now on strike. Here’s why
Hollywood’s video game performers went on strike Friday after negotiations with game industry giants that began more than a year and a half ago came to a halt over artificial intelligence protections.
Teamsters and Basic Crafts Unions Reach Tentative Deal on New Contract
The Teamsters and other Hollywood Basic Crafts unions have reached a tentative deal on a new contract with the major studios — deals that are expected to bring at least two years of calm between labor and management in Hollywood following last year’s writers and actors strikes.
Truthout: I Work for the US’s Largest Union. Why Would It Hold My Health Care Hostage?
On July 23, I had a critical appointment with my nephrologist to discuss how long I can delay my next kidney infusion without dying. Together we made the extremely painful decision to wait to schedule my needed treatment until my employer stopped threatening to cut off my health care.
Biden rolls out plan to overhaul the Supreme Court
President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a three-pronged proposal to reform the Supreme Court, a policy area that he said will be a focus of his remaining months in office.
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