EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, the Service Employees International Union hounded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for using Culver City-based security company Security Industry Specialists (SIS), which the union said discriminates against race and gender. The union came out against SIS after several lawsuits…

Just days before a strike was set to start, management and the union representing healthcare workers at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's hospital and facilities today agreed to step back from the brink. Instead of picket lines going up at the MPTF's Wasserman Camus hospital in Woodlands Hills and other venues…

With a strike scheduled to start on Monday, the union representing healthcare workers at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's hospital and facilities today took its case to the feds. The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West filed a charge (read it here) of unfair labor practices and…

On the eve of a Monday strike, the union that represents healthcare workers at the Motion Picture and Television Fund‘s hospital and facilities is taking a scorch Earth approach. The latest salvo by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is providing Deadline with the MPTF's 2011 IRS…

Despite a looming strike next week, there was no last minute deal struck today in the last bargaining session between the Motion Picture and Television Fund and the union that represents the healthcare workers at the Wasserman Camus in Woodland Hills and other facilities. "After extensive good faith bargaining on…

UPDATE, 9:56 PM: I just got a statement (see below) from MPTF CEO Bob Beitcher about the SEIU’s planned three-day strike. Expressing “surprise and disappointment” on the labor action, Beitcher says that “on Monday we will begin polling our represented employees on their intention to report to work during the strike…

Deadline contributor Ross Lincoln reports that Beverly Hills Hotel security kept a handful of members of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West well back from guests arriving for Saturday night’s 11th Annual ‘Night Before’ Oscars Party. It’s the fundraiser for the Motion Picture and Telev…

Guests at Jeffrey Katzenberg's 11th Annual 'Night Before' Oscars Fundraiser benefiting the Motion Picture and Television Fund tomorrow won't have to worry about crossing a union picket line after all. But that doesn't mean they'll be able to ignore the contract talks battle between the Service Employees International…

Ross Lincoln contributed to this report The contract battle between union members and the Motion Picture and Television Fund spread today from the negotiating table to the streets. As I reported last week that they would, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West set up protest lines…

UPDATE, 8:34 AM: The union that represents healthcare workers at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's care facility and hospital is planning picket lines this week but the organization's CEO says "progress was made" in the last set of talks between the two sides. "We were encouraged by this past week’s bargaining…

The growing labor action at the Motion Picture and Television Fund‘s care facility and hospital has nothing to do with staffing issues, the nonprofit's CEO said today. "Staffing levels has not been a part of our negotiations with SEIU since September 2012.  Rather, the issues are all economic — wages, share of health…

Union members at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's care facility and hospital today overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike. While that doesn't mean the nurses, their aides, medical-records workers and other caregivers are walking off the job immediately, it does mean they could if current negotiations…