Author: Maryellen Kane

The SAG-AFTRA strike ends after intense negotiations

After a historically long strike, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (SAG-AFTRA), the union representing thousands of actors, has closed its picket lines. Beginning in July of this year, the strike lasted over 100 days, and concluded last Wednesday after the union reached a tentative agreement […]

U.S. narrowly avoids government shut down

With the deadline quickly approaching, the U.S. government was able to narrowly avoid a full government shutdown just before midnight on Sept. 30. The stopgap bill signed by President Joe Biden will extend the deadline until mid-November, continuing funding to government agencies and allocating billions of dollars for disaster relief. […]