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GOP's Scott Brown sworn in, ends Senate Democrats' super-majority (Updated)
Top of the Ticket(UPDATED: A photo (above) and video (below) of Brown's oath-taking have been added to this item.) This is the day it all changes. Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, who toppled political and historical expectations by winning the U.S. Senate seat held.... -
Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb feels the heat
Culture MonsterRead the recent stories about Peter Gelb in the New York media and you'll get the unmistakable impression that the Metropolitan Opera's head honcho is currently going through a trial by fire. Last week, the country's largest opera company said...... -
Union rally backs organizing drive at private L.A. Film School
L.A. NOWUnion supporters rallied in Hollywood on Wednesday in support of a contentious organizing drive at the private Los Angeles Film School on Sunset Boulevard. Pro-union speakers accused school management of using stall tactics to put off a vote on... -
Connecticut Humane Society accused of euthanizing some animals instead of providing treatment
L.A. UnleashedThe Connecticut Humane Society has failed to spend most of its money for its central purpose of helping animals, sometimes euthanizing animals rather than providing treatment, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday. In a preliminary... -
Writers Guild sings same tune as composers and lyricists
Company TownThe quest by Hollywood's composers and lyricists to secure union benefits that their peers on the set enjoy has struck a chord with the Writers Guild of America. At a meeting tonight at the guild's West Coast headquarters in West...... -
Illegal immigrants -- they're money
DAN STEIN, the premier American nativist and president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, is shocked, shocked. He's mad at Bank of America for issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants. He says that to BofA "and other large corporations,...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Employees, Government, Emma Lazarus
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Stronger unions mean a strong middle class
HARLEY SHAIKEN is a professor specializing in labor and the global economy at UC Berkeley.POLLS TELL US that 58% of eligible workers would join a union if they could, yet union membership in the private sector plummeted to 7.4% in 2006, a record low. What explains this yawning gap? The fact that, for many Americans, joining a union has...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Referenda, Companies and Corporations, Alan Greenspan, Employees
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Unions join to organize carwash workers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTwo of the nation's largest unions formally announced a campaign to organize Southern California's 18,000 carwash workers and offered consumers recommendations on how to avoid carwashes that violate minimum wage laws. "We will do whatever it takes to...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Wages and Pensions, Employees, Family, Labor Legislation
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Writers Guild is close to a deal with UA
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersUnited Artists, the independent production unit of MGM controlled by actor Tom Cruise and his producer partner, Paula Wagner, is expected to become the first movie company to reach an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America, enabling the...Tags: Entertainment, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Tom Cruise, Drama (genre)
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Who strikes?
Today, writer-producer Craig Mazin and web entrepreneur Matt Edelman discuss the traditional view of labor as it applies to writers. Later in the week, they'll discuss why writers should or shouldn't be given special consideration with royalties, new...Tags: Entertainment, Travel, Companies and Corporations, Employees, Ellen DeGeneres
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Studios offer new proposals to avert writers strike
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Thursday offered a modified package of proposals in a bid to keep fractious negotiations alive six days before the expiration of the writers contract. The writers and producers have made little...Tags: Entertainment, Collective Contract, Contracts, Unions, Career and Workplace
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Hollywood bracing for a writers strike
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFilm and TV writers, actors and crew members are canceling vacations, working overtime and squirreling away savings while they still can. Talent agencies, postproduction houses and equipment rental shops have drawn up plans to cut costs and payrolls...Tags: Entertainment, Real Estate Agents, Game Shows, Celebrities, Restaurants
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