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Top Five Labor Law Developments for January 2024 - Jackson Lewis

Mon, Feb 5, 2024 05:43 ET
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  1. Union membership continued its overall decline, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Overall union membership dropped from 10.1% in 2022 to 10% in 2021, a continuation of the decline since membership peaked in the 1950s. At 6.0%, the private sector union membership rate remained the same as the 2022 rate. Industries with the highest union membership rates include transportation and utilities, construction, motion pictures and sound recording, and education and health services. Despite an overall decline, union membership increased across many southern states, where union membership is traditionally low.
  2. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced an agreement with Hollywood studios requiring actors’ consent and minimum payments for artificial intelligent (AI) voiceover work. The union’s agreement with AI platform Replica Studios provides standards on digital voice replicas in video games and other entertainment mediums. The deal follows last year’s contentious negotiations between SAG-AFTRA members and Hollywood studios, which involved a months-long strike that shut down the entertainment industry. One of the biggest issues during negotiations was the use of AI, particularly performer consent and compensation for the use of members’ image and likeness. The use of AI has continued to be a subject of heated discussion across the entertainment industry.
  3. California State University (CSU) student-workers began voting on whether to unionize. More than 17,000...


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