Recent victories for unions at Amazon, Starbucks and Apple stores suggest to some a resurgence of America’s long declining labour movement. read more »
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Hollywood Unions
by Lou Siegel 05/16/2011
If you work in L.A. in film, tv, radio, music, news, live or “new” media, there’s a very good chance you’re in a union.
That’s true if you’re an actor, camera operator, broadcaster, hair stylist, electrician, costume designer, truck driver, writer, production manager, art director or stunt man or woman.
It’s one of last industries in America with what’s called “union density,” in which collective bargaining determines wage scale, residuals, medical and pension coverage; and sets work rules and jurisdiction (who does what). read more »
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Labor’s End?
by Lou Siegel 01/27/2011
Remember cigar-smoking union leaders, those portly white guys who sat around the pool at AFL-CIO conventions in Miami Beach?
We called them the “old guard” and blamed them for allowing what looked at the time to be a very foreboding decline in union density, power and influence.
When I started in the Labor Movement in the 1980s, the struggle to replace that generation with smart, progressive and militant leadership was well underway. read more »
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