Writers Say Strike to Start 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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Striking Hollywood writers will meet face to face with studio executives this week for the first time since their contract talks collapsed on December 7, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Hollywoodâs writers made it official on Tuesday night, voting to end their bitterly fought strike at the 100-day mark by an overwhelming margin. Of 3,775 writers who cast ballots, 92.5 percent voted in favor of ending the strike. Officials of the Write...
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LOS ANGELES  - The Directors Guild of America has begun casual contract talks with the studios, and an announcement of formal negotiations appears likely within the coming week, a step that ensures the writers strike will persist for some time.
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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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By WILLIAM TINNING  BBC journalists and technical staff are to stage a 24-hour strike in a row over jobs which threatens to disrupt radio and TV news programmes, unions announced yesterday.
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Union leaders for striking  Hollywood writers voted on Sunday to formally endorse a deal  with studios to end their bruising three-month-old labor clash,  calling an immediate halt to picketing and paving the way for  writers to return to work by mid-week.
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Ballots were still being tallied late Friday in a vote expected to authorize a strike by Hollywoodâs writers as early as Nov. 1.
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Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner  Inc, has told about 1,000 television and film production  workers that an unspecified number of layoffs will soon be  announced due to Hollywood's screenwriters strike.
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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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See you on Monday? With a chance that the Hollywood writersâ strike could be settled soon, television producers have already started to say just that.
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Negotiators for Hollywood studios and striking writers have agreed to terms of a new contract that could be presented to union leaders in days and, if approved, end their three-month-old labor clash later this week, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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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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Striking film and television writers agreed on Monday to allow next monthâs Grammy Awards program to be written by members of the writers guild.
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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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Facing dwindling bank accounts, striking TV and film writers returned to the picket line Wednesday, saying they're eager to get back to work but determined to tough it out until their demands are met.
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Bringing a measure of optimism to the bleak Hollywood writers strike saga, the union said Tuesday it would start informal talks with studios, drop some contract demands and give a picket-free blessing to the Grammy Awards.