Scenes, Words, And Links From Around Our Movement

 

The IATSE General Executive Board Endorsed Kamala Harris for President 

of the United States, Expressed Gratitude to President Biden

A strike is a last resort. No one wants to go on strike. We’re up against, frankly, an existential threat to our profession in the form of A.I. As you’ve probably heard from other entertainment strikes, A.I. is a huge concern. It’s especially a huge concern for our professions, for voice actors and movement performers. We have to take a stand because the protections that our employers have put across the table are woefully insufficient and are going to put a lot of people out of work.

Ashly Burch

Actor & SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Negotiating Committee Member

The SAG-AFTRA video game workers strike continues!

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., left , takes a selfie with her colleague 

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, PA. and dozens of supporters during a rally

 for Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala 

Harris on the South Side of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

 (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress) See this article and please support the

 Pittsburgh Union Progress.

Sheriff Sid Hatfield (right) and Deputy Ed Chambers (left) were assassinated

 in broad daylight on the steps of the McDowell County, West Virginia Courthouse

 by anti-unionBaldwin-Felt company gun thugs on August 1, 1921. The assassinations

markeda tragic turn in the West Virginia Mine Wars, but the gun thugs did not have

 the last word. We remember them and all of those who died in the Matewan West

Virginia Massacre---and all of the Union women and men who died in the West

Virginia Mine Wars---as heroes.

See here to add your support!

(Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)

“Wholly peaceful” picketing strikers at the Post-Gazette were 

legally allowed to picket on company property, the Pennsylvania Superior Court

 court says in dealing out the latest of a string of legal losses to the company.

At Portland Expo Center, Machinists union members at Boeing’s Gresham

 parts plant lined up to cast strike votes and collect gear like the red union

 T-shirts, above. The back of the shirt features a rattle snake coiled around the

 Machinists’ gear logo and the motto, “Will strike if provoked.” Photo and text

 by Don McIntosh. Read the story in the Northwest Labor Press here. 

According to an AFL-CIO press release, members of The

Bronx Defenders Union–UAW Local 2325 (BxD Union) last week voted to ratify

a historic two-year contract with their public defender nonprofit employer, one month

and a day after workers voted for strike authorization.

South Florida Sun Sentinel Workers Won Their Union Election by

a Unanimous Landslide--Photo from the AFL-CIO.

The Transport Workers Union of America secured the largest wage increase

 for Amtrak workers in the agency’s 53-year history after on-board service workers

 overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new seven-year contract on Tuesday.

Photo from the Northwest Labor Press. Media reports say that the Association

 of Flight Attendants (AFA) at Alaska Airlines has won a tentative agreement 

on a new union contract that contains many advances for the workers. Voting 

on the tentative agreement has been complicated by an extension on talks 

regarding the proposed merger of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. 

The union's strong campaign for a fair contract at Alaska Airlines was timed

 in part in synch with the merger talks, but with the unexpected extension of 

the talks the union vote becomes somewhat more difficult.