Just a day after Türkiye (now the formal name of Turkey) dropped its objections to Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, leaders of the Western military alliance formally invited the two Nordic countries to join on June 29. It could take several months for current NATO members […]

WGA East members employed by ABC News have voted overwhelmingly – 96% in favor – to ratify a new thee-year contract. The 110-member bargaining unit includes news editors, news writers, continuity writers, researchers, assignment editors, desk assistants, production assistants and graphic artists based in New York and Washington, D.C who […]

The Olympic Channel, which NBCUniversal launched five years ago as a destination for its Olympic programming, is going dark on September 30. “In order to best reach our target audiences, we are reevaluating our programming distribution strategy regarding the content that currently airs on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA […]

The United States will release the latest tranche of military assistance to Ukraine worth $450 million, including additional long-range rocket systems, to help it fight the Russian attacks. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he is authorizing the thirteenth drawdown of arms and equipment from U.S. Department of Defense inventories […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the intended availability of around 17 million bottles equivalent of general infant formula to be imported from New Zealand and Ireland. Under the FDA’s enforcement discretion to source more infant formula to the U.S., French food company Danone SA will send 555,000 cans […]

Endeavor Group has amended its pending purchase of sports betting company OpenBet in a cash and stock deal that’s now worth $800 million versus $1.2 billion when it was announced in September. The talent agency, sports and events giant led by Ari Emanuel had agreed to pay $1 billion in […]

The state of unions in America today is not heartening to the labor movement. In 1983, the first year for which data is available, some 20.1% of the American workforce, representing about 17.7 million, belonged to unions. Last year, there were only about 14 million union workers, accounting for 10.3% […]

The National Labour Relations Board’s region director in Buffalo has asked a federal court to re-instate seven local Starbucks workers who were fired, allegedly due to their union activities. Linda M Leslie, the NLRB’s Buffalo regional director said in a statement, “We are asking the court to swiftly grant the […]

The WGA’s historic reshaping of the talent agency business will take full effect at the end of business today, after which agency packaging fees will no longer be permitted under the guild’s franchise agreement. “The agency campaign was founded on the simple truth that agents are our fiduciaries,” said WGA […]

President Joe Biden said that he would support altering the rules of the filibuster as a way to codify abortion and privacy rights into law. “I believe we have to codify Roe Vs. Wade into law, and the way to do that is to make sure that Congress votes to […]