Variety reports that the writing staff for Sesame Street has unanimously voted to approve of a strike authorization if they cannot reach a satisfactory contract agreement by this Friday, April 19. From the article: The 35 writers represented by the union have been in negotiations with the production company behind "Sesame Street" and other children's programs since February. — Read the rest
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...
Members of the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) have voted strongly in favour of authorising strike action against the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA). The guild has issued a notice stating th
Members of the Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West at US-based Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational content company behind long-running series Sesame Street, have threated to take strike action.
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
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 […]
Devastating the collective political cartoonists of America—forced to crumple up potentially hundreds of hastily scrawled cartoons depicting Bert and Ernie screaming slogans while out on the picket lines—Deadline reports tonight that the Writers Guild Of America has reached a tentative agreement with Sesame Workshop, likely avoiding a strike that could have shut down production of long-running children’s educational series Sesame Street. The 35 writers on the series had authorized a vote to...
Unionized Canadian entertainment writers voted to authorize a strike this week, following in the footsteps of their peers in the U.S.
The Poway Unified School board voted unanimously to fire Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps from her position, effectively immediately, the school board clerk announced after a closed session Tuesday. The action follows the completion of an investigation by law firm Dannis Woliver Kelley into Del Norte High School's softball program and accusations that Phelps harassed its players after an end-of-season awards banquet last May. The probe included 41 witnesses and the review of a number of...
More than a dozen House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning Iran's airstrikes on Israel Thursday. The resolution, which also affirms U.S. support for Israel responding to the attack however it deems necessary, overwhelmingly passed 404 to 14. Just one House Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., voted against the bill. Fox News Digital reached out to Massie for comment. Massie was joined by 13 Democrats, including "Squad" member Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rashida Tlaib,...
The writers, who are represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, were threatening to picket outside of Sesame Workshop’s New York headquarters if a deal wasn’t reached.
A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction when they had simply violated the voting law by mistake.