Megan Jamerson

Reporter for @KCRW. Sometimes reports for @NPR, @Marketplace RT ≠ endorsement.

[LAFD 🔥 @LAFD]

All #LAFD members currently off-duty are to call the DOC 213-576-8962 with their availability for recall. #palisadesfire

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

We now have two major, wind-driven SoCal fires: #PalisadesFire (burning all day in/near Pacific Palisades) and now #CloseFire (in/near Eaton Canyon near Altadena/Pasadena). Newer Close Fire is also in a very bad spot w/increasingly extreme winds. #CAwx #CAfire

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

Teamsters announce Amazon workers have authorized a strike at four Southern California facilities: Palmdale, Victorville, Industry, and San Bernardino.

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

INBOX: The @animationguild reached a tentative agreement with studios

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

NLRB rules captive audience meetings are unlawful. Labor advocates have long considered these meetings a union busting tactic: https://t.co/qYTpFjzGYD

[SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra]

Intimacy coordinators have voted to join SAG-AFTRA in a National Labor Relations Board vote which was tallied earlier today. The final vote was 100% in favor of unionizing with SAG-AFTRA.

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[Jon Donnison @jondonnisonbbc]

WATCH: 5 year old Nisar, had to see with his own eyes, full of tears. He peeps inside the bodybag. Inside is his auntie. Our @BBCNews piece on Gaza as UN says Israel has failed to meet US deadline to ease suffering. With @edhabershon @YousefShomali @Gidikleiman & @edsvebull

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

SCNG Guild is lifting its strike deadline following a set of tentative agreements.

[SCNGguild @SCNGguild]

🚨🚨We've reached a tentative agreement! Our Nov. 2 rally in Santa Ana is canceled and we are lifting our strike deadline for now. We will hold a ratification vote soon. Here are some of the gains we’ve made:

[Emir Nader @EmirNader]

Three journalists working for Lebanese TV have been killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike on their residence in the south, according to local media. It's only from journalists risking their lives that we have any picture of the Israel / Hezb war there. No comment yet from IDF

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

Latest from SCNG guild

[SCNGguild @SCNGguild]

🚨🚨🚨At the end of an all-day bargaining session yesterday, we told management they have a deadline of 12:01 am, Monday, Nov. 4, to bargain in good faith and present us with an acceptable proposal or we will begin our ULP strike.

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

@shashib @Marketplace Thanks for listening!

[Georgetown Privacy @GeorgetownCPT]

When entertainment venues require face recognition for entry, "it desensitizes people to more surveillance in their lives," Center Associate Emerald Tse talked to @MBJamerson @kcrw about LA's @IntuitDome new face recognition cameras.

https://t.co/5WrYNjUzKT

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

This: It has been remarkable to watch how doctors in Gaza have become the "first drafts of history" so to speak, instead of journalists.

I also fear this will put them at double the risk for speaking about what they are seeing.

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

Big news for these local journalists. 90% of members participated in the strike authorization vote.

[SCNGguild @SCNGguild]

In the first authorization for an open-ended strike ever taken by journalists at a newsroom owned by the secretive Alden Global Capital, the Southern California News Group union today announced its members have voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking.

#SaveSoCalNews

[Dave Jamieson @jamieson]

Teamsters just released internal polling on membership's feelings toward the presidential race.

In a nutshell: Members backed Biden over Trump until Biden left the race. Then they backed Trump over Harris and it's stayed that way.

Endorsement, or non-endorsement, expected today

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

@IntuitDomePR what's the best phone number and email for interview requests? i'm not having any luck with the intuitdomepr one.

[Animation Workers Ignited @AWorkersIgnited]

Via @kcrw @MBJamerson Hollywood’s Animation Union wants to end a gender pay gap!

[Bill Wolkoff @flying_lobster]

Great piece about a problematic gender pay gap in animation that’s been around since a problematic chapter of animation history. Thx to KCRW for covering. Negotiations resume next week, this is on the table! #EqualPay4EqualPaint #StandWithAnimation

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

Latest from me on @animationguild's efforts to close a long-standing pay gap for the historically woman-dominated job of color design during this year's negotiations: https://t.co/uGLQmXLQXS

[Megan Jamerson @MBJamerson]

@VentonBlandinTV Nice to 'tweet' you too.