International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

Crew Members on Spike TV's '1,000 Ways to Die' Fired for Trying to Unionize

Former employees and union groups have set up a picket line outside the Burbank headquarters of Original Productions, the company behind the shows 'Deadliest Catch,' 'Ice Road Truckers,' and 'Storage Wars.' The picket comes after the production company dismissed the entire crew of the show '1,000 ... More >>

Dastardly Deeds in Darts

One angry man brings Southern California Darts Association to its knees

Rave Promoters' Alleged Under-the-Table Cash Payments to Union Hands at L.A. Coliseum Probed by FBI -- Source

Kevin TodoraRaver boys.​The FBI is looking into allegations that millions of dollars in under-the-table cash payments were made by rave promoters and other exhibitors to union hands working events at the troubled L.A. Coliseum and its sister venue, the Sports Arena. FBI agents in recent weeks ... More >>

Rave Promoters Paid Millions to L.A. Coliseum Union Workers Under the Table and in Cash, Sources Say

Timothy NorrisYoung faces at the 2009 Electric Daisy Carnival.​More than $2.5 million in cash was paid to union hands who worked concerts, mostly controversial raves, at the publicly run L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena, according to sources and documents obtained by the Weekly. On Tuesday lawy ... More >>

Union Stagehand At USC's Obama Rally Sent Home For Wearing 'Bush' Sweatshirt

Navy ProsThe aircraft carrier on which Hammond's son serves as a marine​One union supervisor working the Obama event this Friday apparently didn't get the whole "Freedom of Speech" memo. KTLA interviewed stagehand Duane Hammond at the scene, where he had just been fired from the Internationa ... More >>

Piracy, Pickets and Peter Bart

Unrest on the studio, union and trade fronts

NBC's Bad Sitcom, Lionsgate's Badass Battle and IATSE's Badly Handled Contract

A Macro Assault on Hollywood Unions July 2, 2008

The mother of all strikes is yet to come

In the Strike Zone

Is the unthinkable about to happen again?

Young Turks Purge at CAA, Sleazy Bribe at WGA, Sour Grapes at ABC

When upheaval at the L.A. Times is the good news

Calm Down. SAG Will Not Be a WGA Strike Sequel.

But when will Hollywood ever get back to work?

Hollywood Comings, Goings & Just Plain Bad Parking

The latest on the NYT, CAA, HBO and Oprah

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

The (Yes, It's Arrived) Latino Factor: Latinos Choose Hillary...

... bum out Obama, and give a little nod to McCain

Reality Strikes

Top Model scribes choose picket line over catwalk

Season of the Pitch

Labor’s Hollywood summer programming

Letters

Letters

Canadian Bacon

Hollywood fights back on runaway production

Spiked in Hollywood

Dave Robb walks away — again

Tinsel-Town Rebellion

Writers, moguls and Hollywood’s day of reckoning

I, Legend

A morning with Charlton Heston

Below the (Color) Line

Blacks remain separate and unequal in the Hollywood guilds

Turn the Channel

Why those striking actors just can’t get respect — or a contract

People’s Podium

A protester’s guide to the Democratic convention

Hollywood a Rustbelt?

Unions fear job loss — and argue among themselves about how to stop it

Canada Steals the Show

Working-class jobs in film and television are hijacked north