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More than 300 people will benefit from CNN’s settlement of a long-running dispute with unionized camera operators in what’s called the “largest monetary remedy” in the National Labor Relations Board’s histor CNN agreed to pay $76 million in back pay stemming from its termination of the contracts of unionized camera…

The owners of Deadspin, the New York-based sports and culture website that has lain dormant for two months after a remarkable exodus of all editorial staffers, will move its operations to Chicago in a bid to restart the site. The move will align Deadspin with the Chicago-based Onion, one of the digital properties…

Trustees of the American Federation of Musicians' troubled Pension Plan have asked the U.S. Treasury Department for permission to reduce thousands of musicians' monthly pension benefits in order to keep the "critical and declining" Fund from becoming insolvent within the next 20 years. The Plan is in trouble because…

Time's Up Entertainment on Friday released a new resource guide to prevent and report workplace misconduct including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, unwanted touching, sexual assault and rape. "Too many people in the entertainment industry are facing physical, emotional, and financial harm. We know because we…

The Trump Administration could play a major role in 2020 in two ongoing Hollywood labor disputes. Last month, President Donald Trump's Labor Department said it may sue to force a rerun of SAG-AFTRA's recent presidential election, and earlier this month, his Justice Department weighed in on the WGA's ongoing legal…

The editorial staff of NBC News Digital has voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video journalists, editors, social media strategists, designers and editorial staff from nbcnews.com, today.com, StayTuned, msnbc.com, and NBC News Now. "We are proud to officially…

Hollywood's guilds and the film and TV academies are asking members to take part a survey of gender and racial bias being conducted for the Anita Hill-led Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace. As first reported in Deadline, the survey is seeking to gauge the extent of…

Twenty-five “distraught” employees at CBS Television City have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the facility’s new owner and CBS Broadcasting, saying that they were “traded” after its sale and not offered buyout deals, unlike many of their colleagues. All of but one of the defendants have worked at CBS for at…

Stumbling from bad to worse, NBC now has a potential labor landmine under its feet with Gabrielle Union's forced-march exit from America's Got Talent. Just hours after the Comcast-owned network finally put out a statement that seemed to recognize the gravity of the situation and the allegations of racial and other disc…

2nd UPDATE, 3:48 PM: In a move reminiscent of its recent Supreme Court co-headlining appearance with Comcast, the Department of Justice today is seeking to speak at a pivotal upcoming hearing in the Writer Guild of America’s antitrust dust-up with WME, CAA and UTA. The Makan Delrahim-led antitrust unit of Donald Trump…

The American Federation of Musicians failed to achieve its main goal in its recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract – winning residuals for musicians' work on episodic TV shows made for streaming services. Even so, the 80,000-member union says it will keep fighting for those payments when the…

UPDATED with comment from union president: The American Federation of Musicians has reached a tentative deal for a new film and TV contract with management's AMPTP. The new two-year deal still must be ratified by the union's members. "The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the American Federation…