Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 Members Ratify New Commercials Contracts

Members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a pair of contracts with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, thus averting a threatened strike. Earlier this month, Lindsay Dougherty, the local’s principal officer, threatened to take “a commercial break” if the AICP didn’t offer a fair contract. “If we are provoked,” she said, “we will strike.” The […]

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UK Private Sector Growth Weakest In 3 Months

The UK private sector expanded for the fifth straight month in June albeit at the slowest pace in three months as the upturn in services activity was largely offset by the contracting manufacturing sector, flash survey results from S&P Global showed on Friday. The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply flash composite output index dropped to 52.8 in June from […]

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Wall Street Poised To Open Negative

Asian shares finished mostly lower, while European shares are trading mostly down.With very few economic announcements on Friday, trading activity might be subdued amid a lack of major U.S. economic data on the day. Early trends on the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open lower on Friday. As of 7.50 am ET, the Dow futures were down […]

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Eurozone Inflation Slows, but Underlying Price Pressures Persist

The News Inflation across most economies in Europe eased last month but concerns about continuing price increases in sectors like services and food are likely to prompt the European Central Bank to raise interest rates yet again despite slowing growth and the risk of higher unemployment. Consumer prices in the 20 countries that use the euro as their currency rose […]

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Insurance companies likely to soon face GST audits

Insurance companies may soon face goods and services tax (GST) audits as tax authorities plan a “deep dive” into their business practices to check for the possibility of a raft of tax-linked irregularities. Several insurance companies are being probed for wrongly availing of the input tax credit without the underlying supply of goods and services based on fake invoices generated […]

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Hollywood Below-The-Line Worker Talks About Strike Impact: “We Have Eliminated Everything Not An Absolute Necessity From Our Budget”

Editor’s note: As part of Deadline’s ongoing coverage of the WGA strike, we want to give voice to below-the-line workers who are also impacted by the work stoppage. This column is written by a Los Angeles-based project manager in post-production. Here’s my biggest frustration: The strike is designed to hurt the studios and bend their arm into meeting the WGA’s terms, […]

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