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As a Californian, I’m infuriated that both @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov voted for our country to remain complicit in genocide.

31.07.2025 03:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Materials Managers at KTLA have voted unanimously to join IATSE and Local 700. Though most KTLA techs have been union-represented since 1956, this group had not. This follows Nexstar’s refusal to voluntarily recognize the union and an aggressive anti-union campaign. Read 👉 https://loom.ly/X7slIJw

13.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Editors Guild Protests Against Nonfiction Producer Story Syndicate At Tribeca Premiere Of OceanGate Submersible Documentary ‘Titan’

EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700) has staged a protest against nonfiction production company Story Syndicate outside the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of its OceanGate submersible documentary Titan. Audience members were greeted outside the Village East by Angelika theater Friday evening by guild members distributing fliers that call attention to Story Syndicate’s “anti-union conduct” and put pressure on management amid contentious negotiations. The MPEG brought charges of Unfair Labor Practices against Story Syndicate before the National Labor Relations Board in March, accusing the Harry & Meghan producers of refusal to bargain and bad faith bargaining.

“This company brands itself as a champion of progressive filmmaking,” Alan Heim, ACE, President of Motion Picture Editors Guild, said in a statement to Deadline. “But when it comes to honoring the rights of the very workers who bring these stories to life, their actions tell a different story. Editors deserve respect, security, and a contract that reflects their value.” He continued: “We support bold nonfiction storytelling, but the treatment of workers behind the camera should be just as bold, just as fair, and just as progressive.” The MPEG and the Writers Guild of America East won their joint effort to unionize producers and editorial employees at Story Syndicate in 2023. Since then, the MPEG says, management has “repeatedly delayed negotiations, backtracked on offers it had previously placed on the table, and refused to budge from outrageous positions calculated to kill the prospect of a negotiated agreement.”

The union also accuses Story Syndicate of insisting upon retaining the right to cut employees’ weekly pay without cause or warning. This union action against the company comes about six months after the Editors Guild and the Writers Guild of America East jointly petitioned Story Syndicate to finalize a fair deal. At the time, more than 250 members of the unions called on the company to “be the industry leaders they are and set a precedent others can follow to create a truly inclusive and transparent work environment.” “Long delays, proposals that are out of line with industry standards, and refusals to respond to important proposals would not reflect well on the company’s stated principles,” read the petition, which included signatures from Lilly Wachowski, John Walsh, Tom Fontana, and Josh Gondelman.

Story Syndicate workers won union recognition nearly two years ago. But these @mpeg700.bsky.social members still don’t have a fair contract!

We stand with these workers at Tribeca demanding respect, security, and wages that reflect their value.

Article via Deadline Hollywood.

12.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 31    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

DAVID IS RELEASED and with his family! He still faces an unjust felony charge.

While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids

09.06.2025 22:20 — 👍 1181    🔁 330    💬 7    📌 22

📣 At TriBeCa, Local 700 members leafleted the premiere of Titan to spotlight anti-union behavior by its production co., Story Syndicate, who has stalled negotiations for almost 2 years.
Editors deserve fair pay & a fair contract. Respect the post crew behind the story. #Tribeca2025

06.06.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Military style ICE raids in our communities. David Huerta was beaten and dragged away.

Because he saw them and stood up for justice. Because he’s not afraid.

Neither are we.

On MONDAY let's #FreeDavidHuerta, #FreeThemAll

11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave)

08.06.2025 00:42 — 👍 2504    🔁 928    💬 30    📌 143

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.”

This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.

He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

14.04.2025 22:46 — 👍 33347    🔁 9459    💬 1300    📌 335

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

09.04.2025 20:32 — 👍 4559    🔁 1755    💬 74    📌 62

If Republicans want to talk about censorship, let’s start with the fact that Trump ordered ICE agents to kidnap and detain Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk for exercising free speech.

The hypocrisy is astounding.

01.04.2025 21:50 — 👍 205    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 2

This Saturday, April 5, unions across California and across the country will come together with allies of labor to send a message to the federal government: #HandsOff our unions and contracts!

Find an event near you: mobilize.us/handsoff/

01.04.2025 01:27 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

29.03.2025 14:27 — 👍 7732    🔁 3104    💬 201    📌 129

Trump and Musk are grabbing power and making themselves richer by gutting our democracy. Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets on April 5 to say “Hands Off!” Join SEIU members in the largest mass protest since Jan 20. Find an event near you: seiu.co/429gFpQ

28.03.2025 21:22 — 👍 35    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0

Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped because she expressed an opinion that Donald Trump doesn't like.

We're demanding that she be released, her visa restored, and her rights to due process & free speech respected.

28.03.2025 17:00 — 👍 523    🔁 138    💬 15    📌 3

Last night President Trump issued an unlawful Executive Order purporting to strip nearly two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective bargaining rights. This illegal attack on roughly 700,000 federal workers and their unions is an assault on the entire labor movement and all American workers. It's not surprising that the billionaires in the Trump Administration hate unions. Unions are a bulwark against tyranny, both in the workplace and in civil society. Right now, federal union members are defending the American people from Elon Musk's reckless and unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government. [...]

And we know that these occurrences won’t stop with federal unions—the anti-union zealots in the Administration want every worker in America weak, isolated, disposable and at the mercy of their boss. The WGAE stands ready to join with our sibling unions and the broader labor movement to resist this attack on working people. We must stand together.

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO (WGAE), Executive Director Sam Wheeler:

28.03.2025 19:09 — 👍 422    🔁 148    💬 4    📌 11

Screenshot of the AFL-CIO's statement condemning the Trump administration's executive order stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government.

Stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government is the very definition of union busting — and a blatant attempt to silence us.

We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being.

28.03.2025 03:20 — 👍 1545    🔁 597    💬 47    📌 85

There's a lot about DEI that is pro-corporate and super dumb, but people who have worked up a lifetime of fantasies about classes coming together to fight capital if we just don't talk about race and creating really big careers on those fantasies who just don't know what they are talking about? No.

06.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

06.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 20080    🔁 3387    💬 493    📌 244

Form a Union | AFL-CIO

It’s our birthday! But we don’t want presents - we want you to build your worker power. Organize your workplace and form a union.

Learn how ⬇️ aflcio.org/formaunion

05.12.2024 20:37 — 👍 68    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Text in the style of a Jeopardy clue: “The post-production crews of these three game shows voted 17 to 1 to unionize with the Motion Picture Editors Guild”

Handwritten text in the form of a question: “What are Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, & Pop Culture Jeopardy?”

IATSE Local 700 bug on blue background

Kudos to the editorial crews of Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Pop Culture Jeopardy for successfully organizing! Proud to welcome them into the Editors Guild family.

27.11.2024 06:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0