Costco raises pay above $30 an hour for many, as Teamsters union threatens strike
Costco is raising pay for most workers as a Friday night deadline looms on a new contract with its unionized employees.
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Starbucks baristas' 'strike before Christmas' has reached hundreds of U.S. stores
Starbucks' union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.
17,000 AT&T workers in Southeast strike over contract negotiations
More than 17,000 AT&T workers in nine states across the Southeast are on strike after accusing the company of unfair labor practices during contract negotiations this summer.
Video game performers are on strike — and AI is the sticking point
If you're not entrenched in the world of video games, you might not realize how much real actors have to do with modern gaming.
They provide everything from lines of dialogue, to portraying heroes and villains, to performing stunts – all of this bringing video games characters to life.
Some of the biggest game studios rely on voice and performance capture artists, and all this adds up to big bucks. The video game industry made close to $185 billion last year.
But video game performers whose human performances become computer data, are especially vulnerable to being replaced by generative AI.
Which is why they're now on strike.
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They provide everything from lines of dialogue, to portraying heroes and villains, to performing stunts – all of this bringing video games characters to life.
Some of the biggest game studios rely on voice and performance capture artists, and all this adds up to big bucks. The video game industry made close to $185 billion last year.
But video game performers whose human performances become computer data, are especially vulnerable to being replaced by generative AI.
Which is why they're now on strike.
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
Fran Drescher tells NPR the breakthrough moment that ended the Hollywood strikes
The longest strike in history by actors against film and TV studios has finally ended. SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher says there is a "new dawn."
Women and nonbinary Icelanders go on a 24-hour strike to protest the gender pay gap
According to organizers of the strike, women make 21% less than men on average. Immigrant women and women who work in sanitation and with children have some of the lowest wages in the country.
The Hollywood writers strike is over, but the actors strike could drag on. Here's why
The actors union, SAG-AFTRA, is hoping to cut as good a deal with the studios as the writers union, WGA, did last week. But the negotiations, starting Monday, could be more complicated.
Why the Obama era 'car czar' thinks striking autoworkers risk overplaying their hand
He was the lead adviser for the Obama administration when the government bailed out auto companies in 2009. Now, he is weighing in on the union strikes against the big 3 American automakers.
How Shawn Fain, an unlikely and outspoken president, led the UAW to strike
The former union electrician was an underdog in recent UAW leadership elections, but with a tough love approach to auto companies in negotiations, he narrowly won. Now he's taking the union on strike.
The UAW launches a historic strike against all Big 3 automakers
For the first time ever, the UAW launched a strike against all Big 3 automakers at once, starting with three locations in the Midwest.