The announcement comes almost two years after the fund was touted as a major win in the 2023 strike-ending contract and includes provisions for background actors, stunt riggers and stand-ins.
The laborers’ union in Hollywood is backing the push, which will be watched closely by early-career workers on other scripted shows.
Love Is Blind just got hit with a federal labor complaint. Will it change anything?
It sends an important message, but may not translate to an immediate fix.
Musicians have been facing pay cuts because of the change of the business model and how our product is distributed. We’ve got to fix that, so that our folks can continue to buy diapers, pay rent, pay mortgages, and have a decent retirement.
The effort by Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation production staff filing to unionize was sparked by Warner Bros. recent reorganization
You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t.
Kate Bush's recent resurgence due to her placement in the latest season of Stranger Things is just one example of what a music supervisor brings to a production.
There’s a new union in town: the Producers Union, which is the first all-new Hollywood labor union to be formed in decades.
Ellen DeGeneres’s reputation as the kindest celebrity in America has finally been shattered. But it’s not just her “mean streak” that’s the problem — it’s that she’s an exploitative boss, who cheated her employees at the height of the pandemic.
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