Country singer Adley Stump, a former contestant on NBC’s hit reality show ‘The Voice,’ performs at an Air Force base in Washington state.
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With the TV writers and actors strikes leaving networks with little scripted content, the fall 2023 lineup will be saturated with low-cost reality TV shows like ‘The Voice.’
United Auto Workers members rally after marching in the Detroit Labor Day Parade on Sept. 4, 2023.
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A work stoppage hitting the three largest American automakers at the same time is unprecedented.
Striking port workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada gather at a rally in Vancouver in July 2023.
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When it comes to picket lines, courts aim to uphold civil and property rights without jeopardizing workers’ freedom of expression.
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The embattled airline may be forced to compensate almost 2000 workers as a result of the ruling.
Striking United Auto Workers picket at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., shortly after midnight Friday, Sept. 15, 2023.
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When unions amass large sums of money to parcel out to workers, it can give them more leverage in negotiations with employers.
UAW President Walter Reuther, center, shakes hands with a Ford executive after agreeing on a three-year contract in 1967.
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Reuther was both ambitious and pragmatic, scoring many victories for autoworkers.
For workers whose wages have fallen behind, the prospect of not having to strike is tantalizing. Buttons on a person in a picket line outside the Toronto District School Board head office in December 2019.
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Trading the right to strike for binding interest arbitration is a minefield for unions.
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CEO pay often attracts more outrage than footballers’ record wages – what does this say about the value we place on different jobs and skills?
Striking members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in New York City in 1958.
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Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
Hollywood writers picket in front of Warner Bros. Studios.
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What would you do if the industry you work in could clone your skills, style and even the way you look and sound?
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Teachers may feel that the government could have gone further.
Striking International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada workers march to a rally as gantry cranes used to load and unload cargo containers from ships sit idle at port, in Vancouver, on July 6, 2023.
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We need a new agreement between employers and employees in the B.C. ports that will allow both sides to enjoy the benefits of new workplace technologies.
Teamsters employed by UPS practiced holding rallies ahead of the strike that wasn’t.
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The strike would have been the first for the parcel delivery giant since 1997.
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Hollywood has been using artificial intelligence for 20 years. But the current actors’ and writers’ strikes are specifically concerned about generative AI.
Placards are part and parcel of a protest.
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Talks between the the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and company bosses have broken down. A supply chain expert explores what could happen next.
Ronald Reagan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, gives Lois Maxwell her member card in 1947.
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Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
Picketers carry signs outside Paramount in Times Square on July 17, 2023, in New York.
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The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
As this picket sign says: lights, cameras, no action.
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Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
Members of the Air Line Pilots Association demonstrate amid contract negotiations outside the WestJet headquarters in Calgary on March 31, 2023.
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While the pandemic undoubtedly impacted the aviation industry, its problems were already present prior to COVID-19. The pandemic simply intensified these issues.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.