Silicon Valley Security Officers Ratify First Contract in One of the Largest Private-Sector Organizing Efforts in California History
 

The Four-Year Contract Will Cover More than 3,000 Area Officers

Silicon Valley – This Saturday, security officers–including those who protect tech giants like Google and Facebook—ratified their hard-fought first union contract that will cover 3,000 area guards.

SEATTLE (Aug. 1, 2018) — The Oak View Group (OVG) and the Seattle Hockey Partners (SHP) announced Tuesday that union contractor Skanska/Hunt will build the $700 million arena at Seattle Center with a Community Workforce Agreement. OVG calls the project the “largest private investment in Pacific Northwest sports and entertainment history.”

“We have the best economy in the history of our country.” That’s what Donald Trump had to say about the state of America’s economy this week in Tampa, Fl. For the wealthy few and big corporations, that may well be true. For everyone else? Not even close.

Musicians and the entertainment industry are celebrating a major victory with the update to California’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program that for the first time includes meaningful support for music-scoring jobs.

The state budget signed by Governor Jerry Brown gives the California Film Commission authority to create regulations that will have a significant impact by bringing these music jobs back home.

Telemundo’s Spanish-language performers now have a first ever contract! The contract marks a breakthrough after fifteen months of negotiations that followed a vote by Telemundo performers to unionize on March 8, 2017. For the first time, they will have residuals, health and pension contributions and minimum rates – the type of benefits that their English-language counterparts have always had but were never afforded to them until they voted to join SAG-AFTRA.

A big congratulations to the performers!