Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Teachers, union members, attend a rally at Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles on Wednesday. United Teachers Los Angeles and Local 99 service workers announced members would strike on April 14, if no deal is reached before then. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here .

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood performers, has reportedly responded to studios' "last, best and final" offer to end the strike, rejecting clauses that would let them re-use AI-created likenesses of high-demand and deceased performers without consent. The union allegedly plans to make a counter-offer that removes the current AI-related language. "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers," a union-side source told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. "We could not allow that language to stand." THR reports that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) proposed to "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers (union members earning more than $32,000 per TV episode or $60,000 per film).

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood performers, has reportedly responded to studios' "last, best and final" offer to end the strike, rejecting clauses that would let them re-use AI-created likenesses of high-demand and deceased performers without consent. The union allegedly plans to make a counter-offer that removes the current AI-related language. "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers," a union-side source told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. "We could not allow that language to stand." THR reports that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) proposed to "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers (union members earning more than $32,000 per TV episode or $60,000 per film).

It takes a lot to frighten Zee. The 35-year-old father of two rarely gets flustered: not when he first set out on the 4,000-mile journey from his family home in Pakistan to the UK more than a decade ago; not during the years he spent struggling for survival on the fringes of Britain's formal economy; not when the Home Office threatened to deport him, plunging his young family into uncertainty. But the cold, foggy, final hours of 24 January this year – they felt different. "My heart was pounding," Zee remembers. That was the night Zee and his colleagues at Amazon's BHX4 warehouse in Coventry decided to make history, abandoning their workstations and launching an unprecedented stoppage to demand higher wages. They had walked out before, in a spontaneous, ad hoc protest. But this was different: a carefully planned and legal effort, the likes of which Amazon UK had never faced. Standing in their way at the exit gates was a line of senior managers who had the power to make or break each worker's future, staring down anyone who might dare to pass. "As midnight struck, I kept catching other people's eyes: do we go, or do we stay?" Zee recalls. "We didn't know what would happen if we crossed that threshold. But we did know that somebody, somewhere had to be the first to try."

By now you've seen the scenes of young and middle-aged Americans wearing cargo shorts and Patagonia Baggies Brimmers in front of movie studios holding ironic picket signs, such as "Chat GPT doesn't have childhood trauma!" As the battle grinds into its 12th week, with no end in sight--and the actors' union now part of the strike too--it's easy to think that a fight between a bunch of "rich Hollywood writers" and the big studios and networks may mean nothing to you, but it's quite the opposite. This is the labor fight of our generation. While in the broader labor force, the share of union members has fallen from 34 percent in the 1950s to 10 percent today, Hollywood remains a devout union town. Except for reality TV and some indie films, the majority of all personnel involved in film and TV production are part of organized labor.

In July, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued video-game giant Activision Blizzard, alleging, more or less, that the company has a workplace environment from hell. Regulators said a two-year investigation into the company revealed an alcohol-drenched "frat boy" culture that included inappropriate conduct by executives, men openly joking about rape, and a general "breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women." The company called the lawsuit "truly meritless and irresponsible" (though it seemed to have some trouble figuring out how to respond), and more than 2,000 current and former employees responded by putting their names on an open letter that said, "We no longer trust that our leaders will place employee safety above their own interests." In early August, employees shared their salaries en masse, Bloomberg reported, to pressure the company into confronting pay inequities. One executive, Blizzard head J. Allen Brack, resigned.

MOTION: This House Believes AI Will Bring More Harm Than Good This debate was run in association with IBM Research. Proposition: Project Debater Project Debater is designed by IBM research. It will deliver a speech based on over 1,100 arguments collected from Union members and others over the past week. It will not be taking points of information. Sharmila Parmanand Sharmila Parmanand is a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Gates Scholar.