State of the Union
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold and Richard Verrier | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media
Reporting from Los Angeles and New York -- Comedian Jay Leno was hauled in front of his own union's trial committee Wednesday to address charges that ...
Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
A year has passed, but the WGA West is still reviewing the possibility of disciplinary action against Jay Leno for "Tonight Show" monologues he delive...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Posted 11.03.2008 | Entertainment
One of Barack Obama's staunchest supporters and prized campaigners and film biographers from the motion picture and television business has just been ...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against extending unemployment benefits.
Reny Monk | Posted 04.26.2008 | Entertainment
The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers vo...
Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.
LA Weekly | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
SUNDAY 12:30 PM: At the WGA's news conference today, union leaders declared the new contract is "a huge victory for us". Trumpeted WGAW President Patr...
ABC News | BRIAN ROONEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Striking writers on both the East and West coasts appear to be giving two thumbs up to a deal that would end the three-month long strike by the Writer...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-cripple...
Michael Russnow | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.
New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...
Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Before the WGA went on strike, its leaders repeatedly assured members they would retain eligibility within the guild-industry health plan for the dura...
AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The union representing Hollywood directors began contract talks Saturday, with striking TV and film writers calculating how a deal might affect them. ...
Reason | David Weigel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Well, the choice was sort of made for him, but 24-odd hours after being bounced from the Fox News five-man forum, Ron Paul will be appearing on the To...
New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Sure to delight movie studio chiefs and producers everywhere, the striking Writers Guild of America is about to be struck by its own downtrodden emplo...
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme in Iowa, likely will be forced to cross a writers' picket line if he app...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Leaders of striking television writers plan to meet Friday with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could...
Los Angeles Times | Jay A. Fernandez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The personal is political, as they say, and at times of labor unrest, the professional becomes even more so. In this roiling tempest of competing inte...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimm...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Two of Hollywood's most glamorous events are now caught up in the entertainment industry's ugliest labor dispute in two decades. The Writers Guild o...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien's late-night shows will return to the air with fresh episodes on January 2 after two months of repeats due to the writers'...
Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Dana and Sam Schechner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In moves that are likely to complicate the writers' strike as it enters its seventh week, most late-night shows are plotting to return to the airwaves...
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics