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WME Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Writers Guild, Citing ‘Unprecedented Abuse of Union Authority’

“We took today’s step with careful consideration,” WME said in a statement. “The WGA negotiating committee has made it clear both through its legal action and unwillingness to negotiate that it was never interested in making a reasonable deal. We are now left to seek a legal remedy for this dispute. While we wish we were not in this position, we will not capitulate to a leadership group that …


US Soccer Stars ‘Confident’ of Winning Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

Paris (CNN) The US women’s national soccer team will “fight until the end” in its battle for equality, says one of the team’s co-captains Megan Rapinoe. With the Women’s World Cup just months away, 28 players in the US squad last week filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation, stating “institutionalized gender discrimination,” which the reigning world …


Lawsuit Argues Fire Dept. Out of Step on Gender Equality

It would never have occurred to me that having rhythm was a prerequisite to being a good paramedic. But the people who run the Chicago Fire Department must have thought so. For two years, the Fire Department administered something called the Step Test as a graduation requirement for paramedic candidates at the Training Academy.