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LABOR ARTS NEWS BRIEFS
A Different Runway: Workers vs. the Met Gala: Hours before Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos took their places as sponsors and honorary chairs of the Met Gala, a different kind of fashion event was unfolding across town. Read more.
Ocean State Media Workers Unionize: Staff at Ocean State Media, Rhode Island’s NPR and PBS station, have announced their intention to form a union with SAG-AFTRA. A majority of the unionizing workers — including hosts, reporters, and digital, audio and video producers — signed the petition to unionize. Read more.
Penn Arts Workers Vote Yes to IATSE: Production workers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts voted unanimously late last month to join Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 8. Read more.
Kids’ Art Delivers a Message: Families and educators delivered children’s artwork to state officials in Olympia to protest proposed cuts and defend Washington’s 80-year-old Parenting Education program. Read more.
SIFF Union to Festival: Do Better: The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with the opening night screening of communist director Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, a pro-union, anti-capitalist satire about a group of working-class hustlers struggling to survive in the modern American hellscape. Awkwardly, at the same time, the SIFF Cinema Workers Union (SCWU) say that SIFF needs to “do better for the workers.” Read more.
UChicago Press Moves to Unionize: Workers at The University of Chicago Press are forming a union with the Chicago News Guild (TNG-CWA Local 34071) and have requested that management agree to voluntary recognition of the union. Read more.
UW Libraries Staff Vote Yes to Walkout: In an update to a story we previously reported on, University of Washington Libraries and Press employees have voted by 94.2% to authorize a one-day strike. Read more.
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