Working Life

You may have heard rumors that the strike by the Writers Guild of America might be edging towards resolution because the big media companies had made "ground breaking" proposals. Nonsense. Here’s the real story.   The presidents of Writers Guild of America West and East released a message to its members about the real status […]

Read the full story

You may have heard rumors that the strike by the Writers Guild of America might be edging towards resolution because the big media companies had made "ground breaking" proposals. Nonsense. Here’s the real story.   The presidents of Writers Guild of America West and East released a message to its members about the real status […]

Read the full story

    A couple of items from the world of the Beast of Bentonville. First, turns out that the Beast is performing pretty badly when it comes to the Human Rights Campaign: The world’s largest retailer set a record this month but not one its managers are likely to be proud of. Wal-Mart has the ignominious […]

Read the full story

    A couple of items from the world of the Beast of Bentonville. First, turns out that the Beast is performing pretty badly when it comes to the Human Rights Campaign: The world’s largest retailer set a record this month but not one its managers are likely to be proud of. Wal-Mart has the ignominious […]

Read the full story

    From afar, meaning I’m traveling, I don’t know the exact details of the deal, but the stagehands strike is over in NYC. The New York Times reports with this lead paragraph: The league representing Broadway’s theater owners and producers and the union representing its stagehands announced a settlement last night, bringing to an end […]

Read the full story

    From afar, meaning I’m traveling, I don’t know the exact details of the deal, but the stagehands strike is over in NYC. The New York Times reports with this lead paragraph: The league representing Broadway’s theater owners and producers and the union representing its stagehands announced a settlement last night, bringing to an end […]

Read the full story

Just a quick update on the negotiations between the stagehands’ union, IATSE Local 1, and Broadway’s producers – the two sides may be close to an agreement. One of the big issues here has been the work rules changes that the League of American Theatres and Producers is seeking. Today’s NY Daily News has this: […]

Read the full story

  When you slip on your Victoria Secret garb, remember this: it comes to you partly due to the wonders of so-called "free trade." And, in particular, that little Victoria Secret garment (I guess "little" is redundant in this context) may even hail from Jordan–which was supposed to be the poster child for how one […]

Read the full story

   I’d guess most people now believe, five weeks into a strike by the Writers Guild of America, that Big Media is greedy and that it should agree to share money with film and television writers when shows are downloaded over the Internet. We take Big Media’s greed for granted. But, here’s an even bigger […]

Read the full story

    As you continue to digest your Thanksgiving meals, remember that there are the fortunate and the unfortunate. In America, that means that the fortunate are the CEOS of Wall Street and the unfortunate are housing tenants who are losing their homes thanks to the greed of the very CEOS on Wall Street.     First, […]

Read the full story