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It's official — the Writers Guild of America strike will end Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 12:01 a.m. PT. The announcement comes following Sunday's news that the WGA and the AMPTP, which represents ...
In the wake of the two-pronged WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, networks are filling their fall schedules with reality TV and game shows while their actors and writers march on picket lines. ABC has been ...
Negotiators for Hollywood studios and the Writers Guild of America reached a breakthrough agreement after five straight days of negotiations — a tentative deal to end a strike that has halted ...
Union leadership representing screenwriters in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has declared an end to a monthslong strike after voting to lift it on Tuesday evening. The decision went into ...
The WGA, which has over 11,000 members, has been on strike since May 2 with the work stoppage reaching its 145th day on Saturday. The strike is within two weeks of the longest strike in the union ...
In the meantime, all WGA picket lines will be suspended, though writers are still officially on strike until authorized to return to work by the guild. In its memo, WGA encouraged members those ...
It's beyond question that the WGA strike, which began Tuesday, will have potentially devastating effects on writers, on the industry, and on the economy. That's not controversial; people don't ...
The nearly 150-day strike by screenwriters — which was close to becoming the longest in the history of the Writers Guild of America — ended after the WGA leadership and negotiating committee ...
The WGA responded by calling for a strike to begin on Tuesday. The AMPTP cast the WGA as refusing to compromise on key issues and for “the magnitude” of its asks at the bargaining table.
After just one week of swapping pens for picket line signs, the WGA Writer’s Strike is already hitting Hollywood where it hurts most: its bank account. The guild’s negotiating committee sent a ...
The Writers Guild of America's strike rules during its current work stoppage are broad, but penning "spec" scripts and writing for certain markets not covered by its contract are allowed.
Since the writers strike started on May 2, celebrities have turned out to support WGA members picketing for a better guild contract. Actors like Fred Armisen are also writers who are members of ...