Industry & Labor

Twelve workers voted to join the major Hollywood crew union in a National Labor Relations Board ballot count on Tuesday afternoon.

A coalition of labor unions representing drivers, location managers, animal trainers, electricians, plumbers and other Hollywood crew members have ratified new three-year agreements with the major studios.

Voice actors will be hitting the picket lines Thursday, asSAG-AFTRAannounced the first in-person action against one of 10 major video game companies impacted by the Interactive Media Agreement strike. The picket will take place at WB Games Inc. in Los Angeles from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT, with members asked to gather at Gate 5 of the studio lot.

Late today unions representing 14,000 cast members atDisneyland,DisneyCalifornia Adventure, Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels announced their members had voted to ratify new three-year contracts with Disney.

It was getting a little too close to the deadline for comfort, but theTeamstersand the studios have a deal. After a long final sprint of talks that had more than a few executives andlaborleaders on edge,Teamsters Local 399announced just before midnight Saturday that the Hollywood Basic Crafts and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached an agreement.

Following a virtual meeting Monday night with nearly 100 casting assistants, the group is officially moving forward with a NationalLaborRelations Board election. The unionannounced the intent to representthem in April.

"The main skill set of documentary cinematography is gaining the trust of your subject," saysGirls Statecinematographer Laura Hudock. "And I feel like so much of it is just how you present yourself as a person. Some of it is the energy that you bring into the room— your kindness, your professionalism."

An exclusive Q&A with cinematographer Adam Stone.

Speaking to Awards Radar on Zoom, cinematographerChris Teague, who worked on the show's first, second, fourth, and fifth episodes, said that "it's a very difficult balance to try to find something that feels fresh but also like it's a part of this very big, well-established universe. We started from the root of what most interested us in theStar Warsworld.

Character and parade performers at Disneyland in California are officially unionized. Federal labor officials said Wednesday that they've certified the results of athree-day electionthat took place earlier this month in Anaheim.

Across the country, labor is having a moment: HistoricUnited Auto Workers wins (and some losses)in the union-resistant South,Amazon factory organizing, Hollywood'sSAG-AFTRA strikeandStarbucks workers' union fighthave dominated headlines this year. "I am riding that wave and loving every minute of it,"Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of union workers, tells Women Rule.

Director Steven Zaillian and cinematographer Robert Elswit reveal the methods, ideas, and secrets of their new series' meticulous black-and-white visuals.