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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Equity and Off-Broadway League Ratify New 4-Year Contract

Members of Actors' Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League ratified a new four-year contract. The new agreement goes into effect on July 28, 2024 and goes through 2028. The contract provides salary increases, changes to overtime calculation, increased compensation and requirements for understudies and stage managers, continued and expanded opportunities for digital exhibition of League productions, expanded time off and sick leave provisions, expanded diversity, equity and inclusion protections and safe and sanitary provisions.
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The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’: The Working People Weekly List

Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Bethesda Game Studios Workers Join Communications Workers of America

Workers at Bethesda Game Studios voted to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The workers consist of 241 developers, artists, engineers, programmers and designers who have either signed a union authorization card or indicated that they wanted union representation via an online portal. Microsoft has recognized the union.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Kalamazoo Planned Parenthood Workers Unionize

Workers at Planned Parenthood’s Kalamazoo Health Center became the first Planned Parenthood site in West Michigan to unionize. They will be represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 951. They will start negotiating their first contract and they say union representation is a step in the right direction toward a lasting career.
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Hot Labor Summer: What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: San Diego Convention Center Workers Secure TA, Averting Strike Before Comic-Con

San Diego Convention Center food and beverage workers, who are represented by UNITE HERE Local 30, reached a tentative agreement (TA) on Friday, averting a potential strike two weeks before the largest annual pop-culture convention was set to open.