Scribes strike on Monday
Variety, 11.2.07
By DAVE MCNARY, DAVE MCNARY, CYNTHIA LITTLETON
No new talks scheduled
The Writers Guild of America has announced that its 12,000 members will go on strike Monday against studios and networks.
The strike officially begins at 12:01 a.m. Monday. Members began receiving the official announcement Friday afternoon -- at the same time that the WGA was holding a news conference at WGA West headquarters in Los Angeles.
Members were told that all writing covered under WGA agreements must cease when the strike starts.
The strike received unanimous approval in today's meetings of the WGA West board and the WGA East Council. More.
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"Pencils Down Means Pencils Down"
From the WGA
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So, just to be absolutely clear: In the event of a strike, we, the following showrunners, will do no writing and no story breaking — nor will any be asked of our writing staffs — until we get a deal.
Showrunners support the strike .
posted by thereel @ 5:11 PM
4 Comments:
I saw this on the news today and obviously was disappointed. They have the weekend to talk but it doesn't look good. I am so sorry it came to this-
Regi.
Seriously, the writers deserve to be paid more.. After all, they are the ones behind the shows we all love.
cant we all just get along...
I hope this gets resolved over the weekend.... how sad..
It has come to this -- an impasse.
I share with you the words of the president of the WGA-East to the writers of the guild:
"After three and a half months of bargaining, the AMPTP still has not responded to a single one of our important proposals. Every issue that matters to writers, including Internet reuse, original writing for new media, DVDs, and jurisdiction have been ignored. This is completely
unacceptable."
We have taken 9 issues off the table, and the AMPTP is still refusing to talk. While some writers are making the big bucks, most of us squeak by to make a living. It's a hard, harsh business. Without writers, let's see how far shows go. Even the dreaded reality shows.
I'm willing to bet that Leno just isn't quite as funny without his monologue writers...
Most of us are scrambling right now, trying to figure out how in hell we're going to pay the rent in the upcoming weeks. But this had to happen. It really really did. The situation was becoming untenable.
Let's just hope the powers that be see sense, and that this thing ends amicably quickly - for the sake of the writers, the actors, the shows, the studios AND the viewers.
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