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Hoffa
"...downfall. The very things that made him a successful union organizer and doggged negotiator were also the things that..."

Dec. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Dream
"...Reagan-era economic policies and the destructive results of calculated union-busting strategies on real human beings caught in the upheaval...."

May 15, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry
Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike
"...to Covid. Now there's July 14, 2023, when actors union SAG-AFTRA joined the Writers Guild of America on the..."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies
Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc
"...The history of union activism in America has rarely been captured on film..."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Breaking In
Getting locked out of your house without keys has never been more dangerous
"...Directed by: James McTeigue. Starring: Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Ajiona Alexus, Seth Carr, Levi..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Last Course
Closing-night film Union Square
"...work hard to get her movies made. Her latest, Union Square – a two-hander starring Mira Sorvino and Tammy..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

UT Announces KUT/Cactus Deal
NPR station takes over music, Texas Union keeps bar
"...Gonzalez joked. To the surprise of few, the Texas Union announced this afternoon that it will entering a deal..."

May 19, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Driving Strikewards?
Transit union to vote today on latest Capmetro contract offer.
"...Following from Justin Ward's coverage last week, busdrivers' union Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091 is holding its vote..."

Aug. 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Statesman Reporters Are About to Strike
The paper's corporate owner hasn't budged on union priorities
"...been two years since the Austin News Guild, a union for reporters at the Austin American-Statesman, first sat down..."

May 12, 2023 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Bus Strike Nearly Over?
Contractor, union reach tentative deal: Members to vote
"...contract negotiations: It seems that contractor Startran Inc. and union Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091 may come to terms,..."

Nov. 7, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin @ Large: Oversight, Out of Mind
As the city and police union move forward, what's being left behind?
"...a complete halt, and the city and the police union went briefly to war. Now, at the 11th hour,..."

March 12, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Bread and Roses
"...to hear the call of the Janitors for Justice union organizer Sam (Brody). It would be easy to pigeonhole..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Wake of COVID Seton Nurses Unionize
The new union wants reasonable shifts, cost-of-living wage adjustments
"...a facility in Texas' largest private hospital network successfully unionized Sept. 21, with 72% of nurses at Ascension Seton..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Statewide Police Lobby Kicks Out Medics for Opposing Save Austin Now
CLEAT blackballs Austin EMS union for standing against failed Prop A
"...chief for Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services (above), the union representing front-line medics and its president Selena Xie have..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Community, Policing
City, police union, activists arrive at compromise with new four-year contract
"...we just stayed on it," Moore said. "And the union realized we had the people power to make this..."

Nov. 16, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

What Will It Take to Get More Police Oversight?
If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money
"...on labor negotiations for the city's three public safety unions. That kind of Item doesn't tend to ever get..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

APA Chief Punches Horse-Molester
Union head unlikely to face consequences
"...works patrol on overtime. His full-time business pertains to union matters. Throughout his tenure, Casa­day has routinely filled in..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

From Russia, With Love
More than 20 years after the Soviet Union fell, Austin finally experiences some culinary glasnost
"...motion for the creation in 1922 of the Soviet Union, a Communist state that incorporated Russia and various Eastern..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Page Two: An Injury to All
The universal perils of union busting
"...literally the almost too-classic capitalist exploiters, it is the unions and their members who are going to suffer the..."

April 8, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Made in Dagenham
This film dramatizes a historic labor strike for equal pay that was conducted by the women of a British auto plant in 1968.
"...a shell-shocked mess. Encouraged by Albert Passingham (Hoskins), a union rep who is curiously the only character that is..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris 36
This French film set in late-Thirties Paris is something of a backstage drama, but it's marred by glossy reminiscing and melodramatic politicizing.
"...II Paris of Jewish Prime Minister Léon Blum, Communist-backed union strikes, German-backed fascist bullyboys with bulging wallets, and the..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cap Metro Workers Accept Contract
Vote brings official end to strike
"...Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091, representing the drivers and mechanics of Capital..."

Nov. 12, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

At the Altar of the Archival
Austin Cinematheque and the essentialness of the shared moviewatching experience.
"...Longtime Austin serious-cine devotees all have their Texas Union Theater stories. I don't have many, unfortunately – a..."

Feb. 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

A Friend of the Deceased
"...Friend of the Deceased, the fall of the Soviet Union and its Communist infrastructure brings with it not freedom,..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Ambulances Were Out of Service 35 Times Last Month
Understaffed EMS means ambulances can’t be manned
"...Negotiations between the City of Austin and the union representing Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services employees continue to..."

Aug. 4, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

AI, Strikes, and Burning It Down: Highlights of the ATX TV Festival
Celebration of the small screen becomes a war room for writers
"...said, is what it's like to be in a union, "and we're pro worker, we're pro labor, we're pro..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Police: Special Pay Benefits Back, Contract Negotiations Coming Soon
Council charts police union's path
"...most of the special pay provisions officers lost when union membership voted against extending the old contract back in..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Who Wants to Take on Ken Casaday?
Elections underway at police union
"...cops are challenging incumbent president Ken Casa­day for the union's helm: Brandon Bullock, a relatively low-profile figure who's been..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Austin Police Association, City Nearing Deal
Wages at issue for union after oversight concessions
"...wage proposal – issued last week – caught the union off-guard, and the two sides went back into talks..."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

AISD Salaries Up for Debate
With cost of living going up, teachers need a raise
"...Ken Zarifis argues that it's nowhere near enough. The union has a counter-proposal that it's calling "four and four"..."

May 6, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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