Recent Moves by Guild Leaders Rattle Writersâ Talks
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A Writers Guild leader expressed wariness over modeling a deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America.
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The president of the Writers Guild of America West and his chief lieutenant are deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their rebellion over?
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Union leaders for striking  Hollywood writers said they have reached a tentative contract  deal with studios and urged members on Saturday to support it,  calling for an end to a three-month walkout that has crippled  TV production and overshadowed Oscar season.
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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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Striking Hollywood writers have opened preliminary contract talks with small, independent producers willing to break from major studios with whom the writers are deadlocked, their union leaders said on Wednesday.
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RKO Productions is the  latest company to sign an interim comprehensive agreement with  the Writers Guild of America, the guild announced Friday.
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LOS ANGELES  - With a new labor contract for the Directors Guild of America expected to be announced imminently, Hollywood's top screenwriters could turn up the heat on their union to end its 11-week-old strike.
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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence
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The union representing Hollywood  directors has agreed to open formal contract talks with major  film and television studios on Saturday in a move seen as a  potential blow to striking screenwriters.
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There are signs of progress in talks today to avert a strike at some of Washington's top hotels.
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US writers will meet later this week to decide whether to hold informal talks with studio bosses, reports say.
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With an entire industry  eyeing a pair of Writers Guild of America meetings Saturday,  everybody and their (out of work) brother wants to know when  the picket lines will come down and the union's three-month-old  strike will end.
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The Hollywood writers guild said Tuesday it has agreed to back off proposals to unionize writers of reality and animated shows, a key concession that came the same day the sides said they would begin informal talks.
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"Desperate Housewives"  creator Marc Cherry, "Dreamgirls" writer-director Bill Condon  and 15 others were named on Tuesday to the Writers Guild of  America negotiating team to hammer out a new labor contract  with film and TV producers.
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Patric M. Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, said the unionâs board voted to approve an interim agreement to let next monthâs N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards proceed with guild writers and without the threat of pickets. At a news conferen...
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The Writers Guild of America plans to brief its members this weekend on a deal taking shape to end their 3-month-old strike, using the meetings to gauge rank-and-file support for the labor plan, union leaders said on Tuesday.
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Major film and television producers -- who had refused to recognize casting directors' efforts to organize a new union -- appear to have reconsidered and have conducted informal "discussions" with the casters and the Teamsters union.