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Strikes
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Adjunct Profs Blog
Unemployment Benefits and Strikers
The availability of unemployment benefits is very important to strikers. Each state regulates unemployment for strikers differently. In the state of New Jersey, strikers are disqualified from unemployment, except if…
Media Law Prof Blog
Industrial Action At Reuters Staved Off
The Guardian reports that the National Union of Journalists has averted, at least temporarily, a strike by journalists at Reuters. The journalists and the company will now resume negotiations. Employees…
Media Law Prof Blog
WGA Membership Votes Tuesday On Deal, Strike Probably Over
More Presidential primary results will not be the only news breaking on Tuesday--the WGA membership will vote--finally--on whether to go back to work after a strike that has lasted since…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Writers’ Strike Continues
Now that ABC and CBS have invoked the force majeure clauses and terminated deals right and left, Twentieth Century Fox as expected is next. More fallout is expected, even if…
Pension Risk Matters
Parisians Protest Pension Cuts
Ooh la la! Parisians take to the street to protestĀ proposed pension cuts. (Fresh in the memory of many New Yorkers, transit workers stateside went on strike in late 2005 for…
Media Law Prof Blog
News Writers On Strike?
CBS News writers may be the next group to walk the picket line. They have voted to strike in a special election, but their vote must go through several more…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Broadway Workers Follow Hollywood Writers on to the Strike Line
The AFL-CIO Blog is reporting:After months of unsuccessful negotiations, the members ofInternational Alliance of Threatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local Onewalked out Saturday, leaving most of Broadway’s stages dark.In a statement,…
Media Law Prof Blog
Negotiator Attempts to Avert WGA Strike Set for Monday
The Hollywood Reporter reports today that a federal negotiator is attempting to get both sides to the table to continue talks to avert the Writers Guild strike set for Monday,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Impending Strikes
Looks like the Writers Guild will be on strike shortly. We haven't covered it here at Workplace Prof Blog because it's been in the mainstream media plenty enough.Garnering less national…
Labor Law Prof Blog
UAW Strikes Chrysler
Update: And as quickly as it started, it ended. (PS)As Paul reported a few days ago, the UAW had been preparing to strike against Chrysler. According to the NY Times,…