Writers Guild leaders urge end to Hollywood 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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Hollywood directors have reached a tentative contract deal with studios after five days of negotiations, the directors union said Thursday. The agreement puts pressure on striking writers to end their walkout that has lasted more than two months and idled work on dozens of TV shows.
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Hollywoodâs writers made it official, ending their bitterly fought strike at the 100-day mark by an overwhelming margin.
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Union leaders at central Florida&#39;s Walt Disney World have asked its rank and file to vote to approve a strike because contract negotiations have stalled.
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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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While negotiators edge toward agreement on the thorniest issues in the 3-month-old writers strike, many in Hollywood are nurturing new hope that an end is near for the walkout that has brought their industry to a standstill.
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Ahead of a possible strike, the Writers Guild has issued a controversial rule that would require members to submit copies of half-finished scripts to union headquarters.
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Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have moved forward towards an agreement that could end the devastating three-month-old writers' strike, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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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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Hollywood's studio moguls issue a statement of unity as the US writers' strike continues.
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LOS ANGELES  - 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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LOS ANGELES  Â Hollywood writers were optimistic they could end a three-month strike that has crippled the entertainment industry after reviewing a proposed deal from studios that increases their payments for online use of TV shows and movies.
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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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LOS ANGELES  Â The union representing Hollywood directors said Friday it will begin contract talks Saturday with studios in a move that could affect the ongoing strike by writers.
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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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Talks resume in Hollywood to try to head off possible strike action by film and TV screenwriters.
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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.