Posts tagged Paramount
IATSE Local 479 Leadership Suspended Amid Corruption Concerns
August 21, 2026 // Local 479, which represents more than 7,000 film and television technicians across Georgia and Alabama, has been temporarily placed under the stewardship of several special representatives after President Matthew Loeb “declared an emergency” at the division last month, according to a letter sent to members and obtained by Deadline. “This decision was the result of an investigation in which reliable and credible information was brought to my knowledge that the property and membership rights of the Local were subject to irreparable injury if there was no temporary intervention,” Loeb’s letter to members read.
SAG-AFTRA Comes Out Against Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
July 30, 2026 // SAG-AFTRA is the third major entertainment union to go public with its resistance to the deal, with the Writers Guild of America long being vociferously opposed and on July 14 filing a lawsuit to block the merger. Earlier this year, the Teamsters also slammed the deal, urging the Department of Justice to block the transaction (which the department of course did not, ultimately, do) unless worker protections were put in place.
Union sues to stop $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
July 16, 2026 // Wayne Winegarden of Pacific Research Institute thinks the opposition is narrow and short-sighted. The institute is based in Pasadena, which is near Burbank and Hollywood. In a phone interview Wednesday with The Center Square, Winegarden said blocking the merger could leave both Warner Bros. and Paramount as unviable, uncompetitive standalone entities. If they fail individually, Winegarden said it will result in far fewer jobs for writers than a merged, competitive company will offer.
Hollywood unions, workers push back against Paramount-Skydance deal
June 8, 2026 // The event, held at Lumiere Music Hall, marked the first stop of a three-city "Main Street vs. The Merger" campaign organized by advocacy groups, industry workers, and the Writers Guild of America.
CBS News union members hold 24-hour walkout over failed contract negotiations with management
March 19, 2026 // Unionized CBS News 24/7 staffers believe they need "to protect their livelihoods during a period of uncertainty in broadcast news," pointing to "layoffs, editorial interference and political pressure" that have become "existential threats" following last year’s Paramount-Skydance merger, according to the guild.
Ahead of High-Profile Negotiations, Writers Guild West’s Own Staff Union Authorizes Strike
February 1, 2026 // Eighty-two percent of unionized staffers voted to empower leaders to call a work stoppage, just months before the labor group is set to face the likes of Netflix and Paramount.
CBS News Digital Staffers Say Fight for Contract Improvements Continue a Year After WGA Unionization
June 20, 2025 // The unionized journalist, editors and social media producers call on management to meet “in good faith” ahead of their current last scheduled bargaining date of June 24
Hollywood actors strike: SAG-AFTRA says studios’ latest offer ‘isn’t enough’
November 8, 2023 //
Longtime Union Leader Steps Fully Into Hollywood’s Spotlight
October 2, 2023 // The dual strikes have been devastating financially, with more than 100,000 behind-the-scenes workers like location scouts, makeup artists and lighting technicians out of work. The California economy has lost an estimated $5 billion. Major studios like Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global have seen their stock prices drop. Analysts have estimated that the global box office will lose as much as $1.6 billion in ticket sales because of movies whose releases were pushed back to next year. Mr. Crabtree-Ireland joined SAG-AFTRA in 2000, a Georgetown graduate with a law degree from the University of California, Davis, who spent the first two years of his career in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He rose quickly at the union, first to general counsel, then adding chief operating officer to his title. In 2021, he was named national executive director and chief negotiator, a job that pays $989,700 annually.
As Obscure as an Extra, She Has a Lead Role in Hollywood’s Labor Fight
August 30, 2023 // Wanted or not, the spotlight has found her. Many union members blame her for the negotiating logjam that has brought almost all movie and television production in Hollywood to a halt. Partly because of her woman-of-mystery persona and partly because she’s an easy target, Ms. Lombardini has become an avatar for the grievances of tens of thousands of striking workers. “Carol can go kick rocks,” Caroline Renard, a striking writer, said this month on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. With her public personality absent, actors and writers have invented one. In May, someone started a parody account on X that has portrayed Ms. Lombardini as a crass tyrant declaring, “I’m a goddess of chaos!” (Yes, she has seen it, an associate said. No, she is not amused.) Another group of screenwriters have mocked Ms. Lombardini online as a fuddy-duddy who hangs out at chain restaurants, the taunt being that no Hollywood person would be caught dead in one. (Her office is near a Cheesecake Factory in suburban Los Angeles.)