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California taxpayers could soon be on the hook for paying unemployment benefits to striking Hollywood actors and writers.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Primetime,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the White House shelved its plan to send aides to be a part of negotiations between the UAW and the Big Three over the auto worker

Donald Trump released an ad showcasing his support of America’s auto workers, making it clear that President Biden has “turned his back” on them.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to a question on whether President Joe Biden regrets that the auto bailout under the Obama-Biden administration wasn’t structured to require companies to have more

As Hollywood grapples with its most significant labor dispute in over half a century, the role of AI in the entertainment industry has come under intense scrutiny, with British actor Stephen Fry revealing his voice was digitally cloned without his consent based on his narration of Harry Potter audiobooks.

A large batch of Ford workers at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne have been temporarily laid off as the company endures the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” NBC News Business and Data Reporter Brian Cheung stated that auto workers are pushing for higher wages in part due to the massive inflation in recent years, but also because they “want

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) stated that there have been “record federal investments” of “tens of billions of dollars” to the Big Three automakers thanks to green subsidies in legislation passed under Democratic

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union will go on strike against all of Detroit’s big three automakers at the same time for the first time in the union’s history, after General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis failed to reach a labor agreement with the union before their contracts expired Thursday night. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that ensuring that all the people who work on electric vehicles have union jobs “is one of the main sticking points in the contract negotiations” between the UAW

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Ford President and CEO Jim Farley stated that he’s not opposed to giving workers pay increases, “But if it prevents us from investing in this transition to EVs and in future products like

Drew Barrymore’s National Book Awards hosting gig was rescinded after the actress resumed her talk show, “The Drew Barrymore Show,” amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in Hollywood.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Early Start,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said she thinks there’s a 50/50 chance of an auto worker strike and that while there isn’t an either/or between the environment and workers, “Perhaps the biggest issue is

Nolte: How are you weathering the Hollywood strike? Tough times, right? Nope. What’s to miss?

As the dual Hollywood strikes drag on with no end in sight, writers and actors are increasingly finding themselves in dire financial straits, with a growing number of striking workers reportedly facing evictions as they can no longer afford to pay rent. In certain cases, some have resorted to living in their cars.

Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher said that the ongoing WGA strike came at the “wrong time,” adding that the Hollywood writers have “no leverage.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Sound On,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) predicted that there won’t be a strike by auto workers because the White House will step in “to make sure that they don’t strike against the Big Three” and

Any hope that the Hollywood writers strike might resolve itself in the near future appeared to fizzle late Tuesday in a volley of bitter recrimination, with the Writers Guild of America accusing the major studios of an underhanded effort “not to bargain, but to jam us.”

Tropical Storm Hilary rained on SAG-AFTRA’s parade on Monday, forcing striking Hollywood actors to cease their picketing for one day as the historic storm system moved through the Los Angeles area.

President Joe Biden has so far remained lukewarm toward striking Hollywood actors and writers even though both unions enthusiastically backed his 2020 presidential campaign.

Striking Hollywood workers are set to return to the bargaining table with the major studios and streamers Friday following more than 100 days of picketing that has brought TV and movie production to a standstill around the country.

Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing Hollywood labor strikes? The answer appears to be the people of California, with one estimate putting the local economy’s losses at $3 billion in the past 100 days — a figure that is almost certain to skyrocket as the historic strikes drag on with no end in sight.

The Hollywood writers’ strike is entering day 100, and the Washington Post has some tales of woe about people who hate us.

The Disney Syndicate has launched a task force to see how artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be used to cut costs, reports Reuters.

These shows have become so insular and divisive, that unless you are the (less than) one percent of Americans who live in the bubble of their elite forest, you don’t even notice that they’ve fallen, that they are gone entirely.

A new poll shows that while Americans support the striking Hollywood writers and actors more than the studios, a clear majority of Americans either do not care or feel ambivalent about the situation.

Streaming services are losing billions, pay TV is dying, movies are not making a comeback, and entertainment stocks are sinking. Where exactly are the profits?

Guess who doesn’t want to be replaced by A.I. or robots? Why it’s the very same Hollywoodists who sneer at the Middle America factory workers who long ago had their jobs stolen by robots.

Nolte: Warner Bros. is reportedly looking at rescheduling three of its tentpole films that had been scheduled for release this year.

Former “Real Housewives” star Bethenny Frankel is calling on reality TV stars to demand the same treatment as the actors and writers who are currently on strike in Hollywood, adding, “I have never made a single residual.”

Hollywood writers are outraged over Universal Studios trimming trees that were providing them shade while they are on strike in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) picket line. Chris Stephens, a comedian and TV writer who has been on strike,

The hit Christian series “The Chosen” will continue filming its upcoming fourth season after receiving a waiver from the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA.

When people who hate me go to war, my only moral obligation is to hope for a long and destructive war.

You want to know what would be good for America? If the studios, the WGA, and SAG—three fascist outfits that hate America—went on strike FOREVER.

The SAG-AFTRA union has informed industry publicists to brace themselves for potential actors strike in Hollywood if negotiations fail.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) will be taking its strike to Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year: “Prime Day.”