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
After grueling months with dual strikes leading to lengthy work stoppages in Hollywood, the Writers Guild of America was crowing over the new deals struck with the studios. Higher salaries and better royalty payouts were agreed to, along with a number of other concerns, and it appeared the struggle with months of no paychecks had ultimately been worth it as it was said to have led to a happy ending.
Source: Nykieria Chaney / Getty The cast of A Different World was welcomed at the White House and led the press room in a sing-along of the famed sitcom’s theme song. On Wednesday (April 10), the cast of the beloved NBC sitcom A Different World was in Washington D.C. on the next stop of their reunion tour which is visiting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the nation. They did make a special stop before visiting Howard University – they visited the White House to see...
The writers strike ended seven months ago, but memories of the picket lines were fresh at the WGA Awards tonight. “The strike is over, the fight goes on,” said former WGAW President David Goodman at the Hollywood Palladium. “As individuals we’re replaceable, but as a union we’re irreplaceable.” As the guild gave out awards to […]
A strike by Tesla mechanics in Sweden, among the country's longest labour disputes, continues to disrupt operations, a union said on Wednesday, and is drawing scrutiny from investors despite Elon Musk saying the storm is over. For months Tesla has been under pressure in the Nordics, with sympathy actions since October backing Swedish IF Metall's mechanics' demand for a collective agreement. Postal workers, garbage collectors, repair centres, port workers, electricians, and cleaners are among...
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Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathering, March 2024. Image by Ray Acheson. AUKUS is the awkward-sounding acronym for “Australia-United Kingdom-United States”—a trilateral military alliance that stands poised to waste billions of dollars, proliferate high-level radioactive material and impose its safekeeping on First Nations communities for hundreds of thousands of years, increase global militarism and potentially provoke a nuclear war. If this doesn’t sound like a good investment to you,...
With all that is occurring in our political and cultural life, there are signs some Americans have had enough. Google recently fired 28 employees from its New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel. The reason given by the company’s vice president for global security, Chris Rackow, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, was that the sacked employees “took over office spaces, defaced our property and physically impeded the work...
With all that is occurring in our political and cultural life, there are signs some Americans have had enough. Google recently fired 28 employees from its New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel. The reason given by the company’s vice president for global security, Chris Rackow, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, was that the sacked employees “took over office spaces, defaced our property and physically impeded the work...
KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Taiwan at 8.04am today. According to a Malaysian Meteorological Department
Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you– Ye are many — they are few.’ -Percy Bysshe Shelley On the morning of May 9, 1934, a rejuvenated International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) struck shippers in the West Coast Ports, shutting down all More