Getting Organized

The delegation of nearly twenty employees delivered a petition from the company’s roughly seventy unionized employees, calling upon their employer to negotiate in good faith to bring wage rates in …

Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema (DTDC) have voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Editors Guild!

Almost two years ago, I met a lot of new friends and reconnected with many old ones walking the picket line in support of the striking crew of Shahs of …

What makes you a Guild member? Is it principally about a transaction, the remittance of quarterly payments for membership? Or is it about your relationship to your colleagues,

Where they have been enacted, “Right to Work” laws discourage union membership. Their object was, and remains, the evisceration of organized labor.

In early October of this year, a group of employees at Leftfield Entertainment, a large reality television production company in New York, faced such a choice, set more or less …

When we fight and win, we do so not because we have statutes or courts on our side, but because we have the extralegal strength that comes from steadfast solidarity …

In its campaign to organize non-union employers, the Editors Guild has many tools and tactics. In some instances, employees withhold their labor in order to convince non-union employers to agree …

We need to embrace a radical inclusivity if we are to expand our movement enough to make it relevant, vital and potentially victorious.

Let’s cut from our usual close-ups of 
Local 700 organizing to a wide shot of the state of
 the American labor movement.