“Teamsters Leaders Are Leveraging A Relationship with the Trump Administration to Push for Worker Protections in the Paramount-Skydance Merger as the Future of One of Hollywood’s Legace. The Union’s General President and Head of Its Entertainment Division Met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr On Monday to Raise Concerns”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Union’s General President and Head of Its Entertainment Division Met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr On Monday to Raise Concerns About theater Marriage workforce. Sean O’Brien, Lindsay Dougherty and Two Other Union Leaders Called for Skydance’s Past “Pro-Worker Commitments” to Be A Condition of The Merger or Forcker, Ame. Recent FCC Filing.
Submitted by an atorney for the Hollywood Teamsters, The Filing Argues that Skydance Has Previously Descripted Support for Workers And Unions But “News Access of Dream Picture of Likely Post-Transaction Job Cuts. ” The Union Met with Skydance Executies Twice to Talk Over Potential WorksPlace Protection Measures, Including Covering All New Staffers With a Union Contract, Accessing Toniv 399999999 – But It has not received any commitments in return.
As a result, the union Met with Carr on Monday in Apparent HOPES that Carr, Who have been right scrutiny of the merger, uses his muscle to afforate measures.
The Meeting ComESS As Fears About Job Cuts Hover Over Paramount’s Offices in Los Angeles and New York Following the Deal’s Closure. In Hollywood, The Teamsters Represent Thouesands of Drivers, Casting and Locations Professionals and Animal Handels and Trainers.
Carr Called The Teamsters Meeting “Productive” in a Post on the Social Media Platform X. In Its Own Post The Teamsters Said the FCC Should “EITHER SHOULD MEMORIERIERIERIERIERDANCE Condition or Encouroge The Parties to Reach An Agreement on How Best To Protect Workers Post-Transaction. ”
The Hollywood Reporter Has Reaced Out to Skydance, The Teamsters and the FCC for Comment.
Under O’Brien’s Leadership, The Teamsters Union Has Englished with The Trump Administration Even as Other Major of Majorican Labor Groups Have Distanced Themselves. After Meeting with Trump Durying His Candidacy, The Union Broke with Its Decdes-Long Streak of Supporting Democratic Candidates and Declined to Endorsenistenten. President to Speak at At a Republican National Convention and HIS 1.3 Million-Strong Labor Group Later Supported The White House’s nominee for Us Secretary of Labor, Congresswoman Chaveman Congress Was Considered Fairly Labor-Friendly.
But The Union and Trump Haven’t Always Seen Eye to Eye. On March 25 The Labor Group DenounCed The Administration’s Nomination of Crystal Carey As the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, With O’Brien Calling Her A “Bad Choice” Who Wanti. American Families. ”
For his party, Carr Has Been Eager to Make The Mist of the Opportunity That Skydance’s PENDING ACQUISION OF PARAMOUNT HAS Prestened. HE HAS IN MEDIA APEARANCES Suggested the FCC Will Take 60 minutes‘Editing of a kamala Harris Campaign Interview Into Account in Its Review; That interview is of Keen Interest to Donald Trump, Who’s Sused CBS Over It. In January CBS SAID IT Wuld Turn Over Transcripts and Feeds of the Interview to the FCC Owing to Pressure from Carr. Mergers and Acquisitions of Media Companies is an area Squarely in the FCC’s Purview, WHICH CANNOT BE SAID OF SET 230 AND MORE TECH-Adjacent Regulations.
Thought A Georgetown-Educated Career DC Insider, Carr Has A History of Trying to Position HimSelf As a Friend to Blue-Collar Workers and Even One HimSelf. The FCC Vet Has Taken Trips Up to TV Towers in Places From Washington, Posing for Photo Ops and Extolling Laborrs’ Work. In February He Did Just In Alabama, Saying Afterward “It Is Always a Fun Experience to Get Up in The Air and Hang with A Tower Crew.”