Union negotiators with Unifor Locals 240 and 673 have reached a tentative deal with GreenShield in Windsor they hope will end the nearly seven-week strike by over 600 workers which began March 1. Details of a ratification meeting were still being finalized Monday, but it’s expected GreenShield’s unionized members will vote on the tentative deal […]
A month after workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) walked off the job, their union says a tentative deal has been reached with the gallery. In a message posted to X early Thursday, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) said a tentative deal was reached after 16 hours of bargaining that went late into the night. More than 400 AGO employees represented by OPSEU/SEFPO Local 535 walked off the job on March 26 after members rejected the art gallery’s offer. The workers...
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational content company behind long-running series Sesame Street, has agreed a tentative contract deal with its writers, averting a potential strike. Members of the
Writers Guild of America members employed by Sesame Workshop have struck a tentative contract deal with management, averting a strike after negotiations stalled over compensation and union representation for the nonprofit organization's animation and social media staff. The bargaining unit of 35 — which includes the "Sesame Street" writing staff — and Sesame Workshop settled on a new five-year contract Friday, the day their previous agreement expired. The new deal includes jurisdiction and...
UPDATED, 4:53 PM: Writers Guild members at Sesame Workshop have reached a tentative deal with management to avoid a threatened strike. A ratification vote on the new five-year collective bargaining agreement will be held in the coming days. The WGA said its 35 Sesame Workshop writers won “historic” jurisdiction and minimum rates for animation and new […]
Startup funding in the penultimate week of April 2024 declined by nearly 27.9% from the same period a year ago, totalling $74 million across 14 deals. However, deal density in the latest week improved to $5.3 million per deal, as per Tracxn data. From April 6 to April 12, 2023, startups had raised about $2.4 million per deal. Funding was down sequentially as well, from $103 million across 15 funding rounds in the previous week. Of the total corpus raised this week, fundraises of...
Governor Hochul and & legislative leaders agree on a tentative 237-billion-dollar State Budget deal. The agreement includes renewed subsidies for developers to build new housing in New York City and additional tenant protections. Pro-housing communities, like the Town of Plattsburgh, will share 650-million-dollars to help build new homes. Another half-billion dollars will be used for housing on state-owned sites, including former prisons. No word yet whether that could include the former Moriah...
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Amazon Prime Video and the NBA are reportedly nearing an agreement that would make the streaming and retail giant a major platform for game telecasts.
The Senate’s newly passed $95 billion package does next to nothing for Americans and does much more to fund endless war — especially with the billions in the package going toward Ukraine. “It does not secure our border; it goes in and takes more money and straps your children and your grandchildren with another $95 billion. It gives money to Taiwan, which hacks off the Chinese,” Glenn Beck explains. However, the blame can’t be laid entirely at the feet of the Democrats. Republicans are...
After hours of stalemate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a deal Friday evening to vote on a package of amendments to a House-passed bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program, putting it on a trajectory to pass before a midnight deadline. The expanded surveillance powers authorized by
The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. Moving fast is critical, CIA Director Bill Burns said Thursday, warning […]