With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday
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Hollywoodâs movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988.
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TV studio executives  might try to nip the potential threat of a writers strike later  this year by tucking away scripts or even shooting extra  episodes of hit dramas and sitcoms.
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Hollywood's striking writers and  major studios have narrowed their differences after a week of  informal talks, raising hopes that a new contract is within  reach, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike
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From the picket lines to ballrooms filled with stars, Hollywood on Monday hoped for a deal to end a 3-month-old clash between striking writers and studios amid reports they could reach an agreement this week.
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LOS ANGELES  - A day before Writers Guild of America members vote on whether to end their three-month strike, the broadcast networks on Monday began firming up their production plans.
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With "American Idol" and Jay Leno back on the air in January, it may seem that all is right with television. But the industry is facing its worst labor crisis in two decades, a crippling writers strike that's reshaping the business of TV and threatening to permanently shift the viewing habits of millions of Americans.
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The Screen Actors Guild on Friday said nearly all its members will refuse to cross striking writers' picket lines at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, throwing Hollywood's award season deeper into doubt.
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The United Auto Workers set a deadline of Monday morning to strike G.M. if a new contract isnât reached.
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Striking Hollywood writers could be  back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three  months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that  union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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LOS ANGELES  - Striking Hollywood screenwriters must turn in their unfinished projects by Friday so that union officials can ensure they don't secretly work for studios during the walkout, which is expected to be lengthy.
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Hollywood edged closer to possible  labor unrest on Friday after film and TV writers overwhelmingly  authorized their union to call a strike if no contract deal is  reached with the studios by month's end.
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The Golden Globes could  become a forum for celebrities to speak out against the TV  networks and studios if the Hollywood writers strike is not  settled by the January 13 ceremony.
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The United Auto Workers set a deadline of Monday morning to strike General Motors Corp. if a new contract isn't reached, even as the two sides continued bargaining late Sunday night, according to a local union web site.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.
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SEATTLE -- A five-day strike by nurses and other health care workers was expected to begin Monday morning against Group Health Cooperative.
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Striking Hollywood writers won two battles on Monday by making a deal to work for Tom Cruise's film company and wreaking havoc on the Golden Globe Awards, but their labor war against film and TV studios is far from over.