Southern California grocery workers - including workers at Ralphs, a division of Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. - voted Sunday to give their union the right to strike, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
Contract talks broke off last week between the United Food and Commercial Workers union and Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons over a new agreement for […]

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Unless that’s the wrong lesson to learn from this AP story running in the Leesville Leader?:

Probe continues into “LIFT” movie tax credits
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two movies made in Louisiana were granted tax credits based on investment figures that exceeded the actual production costs of the films, according to an independent audit cited in a […]

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“The general public should understand that film ‘accounting’ and conventional accounting are two very different things.”
Now there’s a line that could come from a number of sources – especially in the writing camp, as the pre-negotiation rhetoric heats up between producers/owners and writers (some of whom are occasionally producers – and occasionally “owners,” […]

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