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The WGA has appointed the members to its negotiating committee in the run-up to its talks with management's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract. See the list below. The current pact expires on May 1. No date has been set for the talks to begin, and it's not clear whether…

Vivian Lien has been promoted to VP Labor Relations at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – the trade association that represents the major studios in their contract negotiations with Hollywood's labor unions. Lien joined the AMPTP in 2013 as counsel before being promoted to Senior Counsel in…

UPDATED with further staff departures: Deadspin, the formerly Gawker-owned sports-website that has become a case study in the management of digital news assets, saw its news flow go dry for nearly 24 hours as writer Drew Magary joined a mass editorial exodus on Thursday. By Friday morning, the entire staff was gone…

NBC News Digital is poised to join newsrooms across the country in being unionized by one of two unions vying to represent editorial staffs. The WGA East and the NewsGuild have made major inroads in recent years, organizing reporters and editors employed in a wide range of digital shops, major magazines and…

More than 75 writers on CBS and Showtime TV shows have signed a petition in support of a fair contract for their fellow writers employed on the newly unionized staff of CBSN, CBS News' streaming news network. The petition was delivered to management at ViacomCBS by WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson on the…

Netflix has agreed to negotiate a first companywide contract with IATSE, the union representing the industry's below-the-line workers. Up until now, the giant streaming service has dealt only with the union through third-party companies that have signed IATSE's basic film and TV agreement. The talks are expected to…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with Unite for Strength response: Adam Nelson has filed a 13-count complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor protesting SAG-AFTRA's recent election. Nelson was the campaign manager for Matthew Modine, who lost the presidential race to incumbent Gabrielle Carteris. Nelson's complaints had…

EXCLUSIVE: Investigators at the U.S. Department of Labor are looking into a range of allegations of wrongdoing during and after the recent SAG-AFTRA elections. Brian Hamilton, a member of the union's Los Angeles local's board of directors, spent 2½ hours with DOL investigator Troy Krouse earlier this week detailing…

SAG-AFTRA's national board is weighing action on a convention resolution that condemned "recent threats of violence and use of violent imagery" during the union's latest elections. Approved over the weekend, the resolution urged the board to "take whatever action it deems appropriate to address what has occurred and…

SAG-AFTRA's national convention closed today with voting on resolutions and speeches from the 160,000-member union's top elected officials. The biennial conclave was a major show of support for SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, whose allies were elected by the delegates to all eight of the union's national vice…

Musicians demanding a fair film and TV contract took their complaints today to the home of Alan Bergman, co-chair of Walt Disney Studios. Rolling up to his house in open-air tour vans, the musicians chanted” "Alan Bergman can't you hear? We will fight for our career." One of the protesters yelled through a bull horn…

SAG-AFTRA and Mexico's performers union have signed what they're calling an "historic cooperative agreement" in which they've pledged to consider joint bargaining in areas of mutual interest. The agreement with the Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA) was announced today at SAG-AFTRA's biennial convention in Los…