Working Life

   Let’s see where this goes: That’s the second big win for Ken Howard this week. Members of the Screen Actors Guild have elected the veteran character actor, who just won won an Emmy on Sunday for his role in HBO’s "Grey Gardens," as the union’s new president, capping a bitter election campaign that sharply […]

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   After many months of internal debate, members of the Screen Actors Guild said "yes" to a new contract with the big studios: Members of the Screen Actors Guild have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new contract with the major Hollywood studios, ending a nearly year-long standoff. The delay resulted in the union’s missing out […]

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   The Los Angeles Times had a website report posted last night: After weeks of back-channel talks, Hollywood’s biggest actor union and the major studios appear to have broken their logjam and could be close to reaching an agreement on a new three-year contract, according to people close to the situation. The agreement would come […]

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   I guess i’m partly interested in the on-going saga at the Screen Actors Guild because I consider it my industry. And, as important, what happens to the power of creators in the increasingly digital information world does mean something to organized labor. You may remember that there has been a lot of turmoil at […]

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    You would have thought that the media industry would have learned a lesson–the Writers Guild of American strike went on for a very long time because the producers thought they could easily break the union. That turned out to be a miscalculation. But, there are ominous signs that the producers are trying to play […]

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