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Oscar-winning screenwriter Adam McKay is urging writers to stand in solidarity with the Writers Guild in its ongoing agency campaign — at least in public. "The WGA is a union," he tweeted. "The whole reason they call a 'union' a union is because our strength comes entirely from staying united. If members disagree…

Two former senior officials of the city of Boston, including the former head of its film office, were convicted in federal court today in connection with extorting the producers of the 2014 Boston Calling music festival by forcing them to hire members of IATSE Local 11. No charges have been brought against the union…

SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine is taking on what he calls the "repugnant" disparity in pensions between the union's members and its staff. "I've been asked by hundreds of SAG-AFTRA members if I could explain the pension discrepancy that exists between our union members and the SAG-AFTRA staff that we…

SAG-AFTRA's 10-month strike against the Bartle Bogle Hegarty ad agency is over, with the agency agreeing to sign the guild's newly negotiated commercial contract. It's a major victory for the union, which had engaged in picketing, mass rallies and shaming in its efforts to get BBH to return to the union fold. Under…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid allegations of "union-busting," the office staff at the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800, will vote this month in a contentious battle over whether they want to be represented by a union. In early June, a slim majority of the bargaining unit – which now stands at 28 – signed union representation…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Jane Austin, who's currently the guild's national secretary-treasurer, has a plan to fix the union. She tells Deadline that SAG-AFTRA "has lost its way in its core mission – to serve and protect the needs of the entire membership, all 25 locals, all categories, so they can…

Employees of the Committee to Protect Journalists have decided that they need union protection themselves. More than 90% of the 30-member staff have signed union cards asking to be represented by the WGA East, and CPJ's management has agreed voluntarily to recognize the guild as their staff's collective bargaining…

Workplace discrimination based on hairstyle is now prohibited under a new California state law just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom signed the bill earlier this week to legally protects people in workplaces and K-12 public schools from discrimination based on their natural hair. The new law takes effect Jan. 1 and…

CNN has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing camera operators, broadcast engineers and other technicians over a lawsuit first filed in 2004. The settlement, which Deadline has confirmed is worth more than $70 million, must still be approved by the National Labor Relations Board. The union, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Enforcement of a new California law that requires child actors to receive training in sexual harassment prevention has been put on hold "due to the current unavailability of third-party vendors and applicable materials," according to the state Labor Commissioner's office. Sources tell Deadline that two…

David Young, executive director of the WGA West, is now Hollywood's highest-paid union leader, earning a salary of $723,500 for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, according to financial documents the guild filed Thursday with the U.S. Department of Labor. For now, that puts him slightly ahead of David White…

UPDATED with more details: The American Federation of Musicians delivered a petition to management's AMPTP on Thursday demanding a fair contract. More than 100 musicians marched to the front doors of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, where they were not allowed entrance. "They are in this…