slap heard ’round the world, Bowman tweeted: “Teachable moment: Don’t joke about a Black woman’s hair.” Sent before the telecast was over, the Democrat from New York soon deleted the tweet – which of course lives on eternally in .jpeg form.Former Guardian and Daily Beast journalist Ben Jacobs captured the tweet before Bowman zapped it, later adding that he was “told” (source not disclosed) that Bowman’s “staff” thought at the time that the slap was merely a joke. (How a theoretically scripted fake feud could be leveraged as a culturally sensitive teachable moment was evidently not clarified by said staff.)Have been told that this was tweeted by staff on the congressman's account under the assumption that the assault was fake/scripted https://t.co/Ol3cmBTIRYBowman was joined in the chorus of two by Ayanna Pressley, who has good authority to speak on the appropriateness of Rock’s joke – the Democrat from Massachusetts herself has alopecia and, like Jada Pinkett Smith, proudly rocks a bald pate as a result.“#Alopecia nation stand up! Thank you #WillSmith,” she wrote.
Teamsters Local 399 Members “Overwhelmingly” Ratify New Location Managers Contract
09.03.2022 - 07:15 / deadline.com
Members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new Location Managers Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The new contract, which takes effect March 13, covers location managers, key assistant location managers and assistant location managers.
The local didn’t release the raw vote totals but said that voter turnout was the highest in the contract’s recent history, with a 75% turnout and a 95% yes vote.
“Hollywood location professionals serve as the liaisons not just between production and locations, but also the community at-large,” said Lindsay Dougherty, Local 399’s lead negotiator for the contract. “They navigate the permit process and secure locations just as much as they are managing the expectations of the neighborhoods that have been selected to shoot-in. They are highly skilled and extremely personable individuals that often are the face of the production to the general public. This round of bargaining was about valuing their work by putting money in their pockets. There are still more gains to be made, there always are, but I’m proud of what our members were able to accomplish by way of this agreement.”
Terms of the new agreement have yet to be disclosed to the press but were shared with the local’s members at a recent meeting. AMPTP president Carol Lombardini was the lead bargainer for the companies.
Dougherty, who was appointed chief negotiator by Local 399 secretary-treasurer Steve Dayan, is the local’s recording secretary and was recently named director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division. She was joined at the bargaining table by Joshua Staheli, the local’s business agent who co-chaired the negotiating committee,
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