Labor
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Unions Raise Flag on Disney-OpenAI Deal’s Infringement Concerns: ‘Built Its Business Off Our Backs’
WGA and SAG-AFTRA say they will closely monitor the conditions of the $1 billion licensing deal and plan to meet further with the studio
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SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin Talks About His Long To-Do List Beyond Warner Bros.
The new head of the actors union promises that his members will have a voice in Hollywood “no matter whose name is on the water tower”
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WGA President Says Guild Has No ‘Preferred Winner’ in WBD Bidding War: ‘Whoever Wins, Writers Lose’
“This is us looking at this as a massive antirust issue where we believe the government really needs to step in,” Michele Mulroney adds
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WGA Calls for Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery Deal to Be Blocked: ‘What Antitrust Laws Were Designed to Prevent’
The Writers Guild of America East and West jointly denounced the $82.7 billion merger Friday
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Dozens of New Yorker Staffers Protest Netflix Doc Red Carpet Over Condé Nast’s Alleged ‘Union Busting’
“We won’t stop fighting until our colleagues are reinstated,” the New Yorker Union says
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Los Angeles Times Journalists Approve New Guild Contract After 3 Years of Negotiations
“It should not have taken this long to get here,” Matt Hamilton, the unit chair and Times reporter, says
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YouTube Studio Theorist Media Moves to Unionize With Motion Picture Editors Guild, WGA West
The organizing efforts seek to protect creatives across editing, writing, sound design, thumbnail graphics and digital production
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A Warner Bros. Sale Could Kill Even More Jobs. How Will Hollywood Labor Respond?
Writers Guild of America opposes a merger with another studio, but several other unions have yet to speak out
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Writers Guild: Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a ‘Disaster’
The union says it will “work with regulators to block the merger”
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Broadway Musicians Land Tentative 3-Year Deal, Averting Strike
The Broadway League agreement offers wage and health benefit increases — and comes five days after the stage actors and managers struck a similar deal of their own
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Broadway Stage Actors and Managers Strike Narrowly Avoided With Tentative Labor Agreement
Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League struck a three-year deal after an all-night negotiation session
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SAG-AFTRA Praises Governor Newsom for Taking Action ‘Against AI Abuse’ With New Law: ‘California Stands With Performers’
SB 683 was signed into law by the California governor on Friday
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SAG-AFTRA’s Sean Astin Condemns Sora 2’s ‘Opt-Out’ Copyright Model: ‘Threatens the Economic Foundation of Our Entire Industry’
The newly elected union president also dismisses AI “actress” Tilly Norwood as a “synthetic construct” in a Thursday memo to members
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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Rejected by More Acting Unions as ‘Nothing but Lines of Code’
Canada’s ACTRA union and the U.K.’s Equity join SAG-AFTRA in denouncing the suggestion that the “actress” could replace human performers
