The head of the country’s largest labor union joined striking Writers Guild film and television writers at a rally on Monday outside the New York City offices of streaming giant Amazon and said the writers’ cause has the support of workers from across unionized labor.
“You are fighting for all of us,” Liz Shuler, president of the 12.5-million member AFL-CIO, told about 200 people in a block-long picket line facing Amazon’s East Coast headquarters in the Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development.
“Can you hear us, Jeff Bezos?” Shuler said, referencing Amazon’s CEO, from her spot on the curb in a towering glass and steel office park where Amazon’s corporate neighbors include Warner Bros Discovery, Wells Fargo and BlackRock.
Shuler shared the microphone Monday with union leaders and a state senator, Jessica Ramos from Queens, who questioned the tax breaks that Amazon receives from union-friendly New York for...
“You are fighting for all of us,” Liz Shuler, president of the 12.5-million member AFL-CIO, told about 200 people in a block-long picket line facing Amazon’s East Coast headquarters in the Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development.
“Can you hear us, Jeff Bezos?” Shuler said, referencing Amazon’s CEO, from her spot on the curb in a towering glass and steel office park where Amazon’s corporate neighbors include Warner Bros Discovery, Wells Fargo and BlackRock.
Shuler shared the microphone Monday with union leaders and a state senator, Jessica Ramos from Queens, who questioned the tax breaks that Amazon receives from union-friendly New York for...
- 6/13/2023
- by Sean Piccoli
- Deadline Film + TV
Over 50 members from the New York State Senate and Assembly have signed two separate letters calling on the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to return to the bargaining table with the Writers Guild.
One letter from the senate and one from the assembly were delivered to AMPTP Friday morning, which marks one month since the current writers strike began. The letters, addressed to the studio association’s president, Carol Lombardini, urge the group and “its affiliated companies” to listen to the issues WGA has put forth on behalf of its writers.
“We understand that, despite many weeks at the bargaining table, the AMPTP rejected a range of Writers Guild proposals that are essential to the well-being of writers in the episodic television, comedy-variety and feature film areas,” both letters state. “We call on the AMPTP, and its affiliated companies, to listen closely to what their writers are telling...
One letter from the senate and one from the assembly were delivered to AMPTP Friday morning, which marks one month since the current writers strike began. The letters, addressed to the studio association’s president, Carol Lombardini, urge the group and “its affiliated companies” to listen to the issues WGA has put forth on behalf of its writers.
“We understand that, despite many weeks at the bargaining table, the AMPTP rejected a range of Writers Guild proposals that are essential to the well-being of writers in the episodic television, comedy-variety and feature film areas,” both letters state. “We call on the AMPTP, and its affiliated companies, to listen closely to what their writers are telling...
- 6/2/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More than 50 Democratic members of the New York state legislature, reminding the AMPTP that companies it represents are the beneficiaries of “hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits” every year, are calling on the studios to return to the bargaining table with the Writers Guild and make a deal to end the month-long strike.
And by “relatedly” tying the tax credits to “good faith” bargaining, as they wrote in one of the letters delivered this morning to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini, the lawmakers appear to be implying that they’ll take the outcome of the strike into consideration when weighing future funding of the incentives program.
The state’s film incentives program was expanded from $400 million a year to $700 million in the state’s new $229 billion budget that was approved by the legislature in April and signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on May 3.
One letter sent to Lombardini was...
And by “relatedly” tying the tax credits to “good faith” bargaining, as they wrote in one of the letters delivered this morning to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini, the lawmakers appear to be implying that they’ll take the outcome of the strike into consideration when weighing future funding of the incentives program.
The state’s film incentives program was expanded from $400 million a year to $700 million in the state’s new $229 billion budget that was approved by the legislature in April and signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on May 3.
One letter sent to Lombardini was...
- 6/2/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s been a running joke these last few months as successive scandals have engulfed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The joke is that each new allegation of personal or professional misconduct seems curiously accompanied by the abrupt announcement of a long-awaited event — almost like an offering to restive New Yorkers who might be tiring of the governor’s antics.
We're two accusers away from @NYGovCuomo letting restaurants reopen at 125 percent capacity.
— Ken Girardin (@PolicyEngineer) March 7, 2021
Reports that Cuomo’s administration had tried to obscure grim nursing-home death statistics was...
We're two accusers away from @NYGovCuomo letting restaurants reopen at 125 percent capacity.
— Ken Girardin (@PolicyEngineer) March 7, 2021
Reports that Cuomo’s administration had tried to obscure grim nursing-home death statistics was...
- 3/31/2021
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
To put it in standard public relations parlance, sex-work decriminalization is having something of a moment. New York lawmakers Julia Salazar and Jessica Ramos have announced plans to introduce a bill making New York the first state to decriminalize sex work, and last month a California senator introduced a bill making it easier for sex workers to report violent crimes. And the country’s most famous sex worker, Stormy Daniels, has in part used her new platform as a way to advance the cause, tweeting about sex workers’ rights issues...
- 3/6/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Aaron travels to New York City and does a live podcast at the home of James Hancock from Wrong Reel. Dave Eves and Jessica Ramos also made the trip up from Philly. Their presence is timely with this month’s newsletter clue, and we get into Broadway, the New York film scene, and plenty of Criterion related topics.
Episode Notes Episode Links Facebook Contest Wrong Reel 295 – Powell & Pressburger Indiewire – Top 50 Criterion Covers Criterion Streaming at Libraries FilmStruck – Student Pricing Alex Ross Perry – Instagram Criterion Rumor Barbet Schroeder – The Valley, More Double Feature Tony Stella – Tumblr Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd Dave Eves: Twitter James Hancock: Twitter | Podcast Jessica Ramos: Creeping on Dave’s Twitter Criterion Now: Facebook Group Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter
Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.
Episode Notes Episode Links Facebook Contest Wrong Reel 295 – Powell & Pressburger Indiewire – Top 50 Criterion Covers Criterion Streaming at Libraries FilmStruck – Student Pricing Alex Ross Perry – Instagram Criterion Rumor Barbet Schroeder – The Valley, More Double Feature Tony Stella – Tumblr Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd Dave Eves: Twitter James Hancock: Twitter | Podcast Jessica Ramos: Creeping on Dave’s Twitter Criterion Now: Facebook Group Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter
Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.
- 8/9/2017
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
We let our hair down for Halloween and celebrate the oddity that is Ôbayashi’s House (1977). Dave and Jessica join Mark and Aaron. We agree that House is the most random and the most bonkers “horror” film in existence. Rather than break it down thematically, we celebrate its weirdness by pointing out the Wtf moments and the occasions that make us laugh. Warning: this episode has a lot of profanity.
About the film:
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes 5face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes,...
About the film:
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes 5face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes,...
- 10/31/2016
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
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