Striking screenwriters vote on back-to-work order
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Film and television writers voted on Tuesday whether to immediately end a 14-week strike against major studios pending formal ratification of a contract deal, but there was little doubt the walkout would be lifted.
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Broadway stagehands voted unanimously Sunday to give their union the authority to call a strike against theater producers, increasing tension in their stalled labor negotiations.
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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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The union representing Hollywood's striking writers said it reached a "tentative deal" with studios and will meet members later on Saturday to discuss ending a three-month walkout that has crippled television production and overshadowed the awards season.
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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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Hollywood's studio moguls issue a statement of unity as the US writers' strike continues.
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The return of writers --  and celebrities -- to the full palette of late-night shows  comes too late for studios hoping to swell support for their  Oscar-nominated films and stars.
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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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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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Gloomy weather and an increasingly  dreary economic climate did not dampen the resolve of picketing  screenwriters, encouraged by the renewal of talks between their  union and studio executives on Wednesday.
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Although the writers strike has created a swirl of uncertainty, Hollywood's awards season will be business as usual Wednesday, when the academy mails Oscar nomination ballots to its 5,829 voting members.
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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal on a new three-year  contract with film studios and TV networks, the two sides said  on Wednesday.
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Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work, an offer the union's East Coast president said he was endorsing.
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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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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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Scions of filmmakers are ready to strike again.
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Euphoria over returning to work quickly gave way to workaday cold sweats as Hollywood writers resumed the daily grind of cranking out scripts after a three-month strike