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State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.

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Jay Leno On Trial Over Strike Monologues

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold and Richard Verrier | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media

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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 ...

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Writers Guild May Suspend Jay Leno Over Strike Monologues

Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media

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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...

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Tyler Perry's Alleged Role As Union Buster Becoming Big Obama Embarrassment?

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Posted 11.03.2008 | Entertainment

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One of Barack Obama's staunchest supporters and prized campaigners and film biographers from the motion picture and television business has just been ...

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John McCain: No Friend of the American Worker

James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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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.

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HuffPoster John Ridley Among Those Called Out By Writer's Guild

Reny Monk | Posted 04.26.2008 | Entertainment

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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.

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Writers Vote to End 3-Month Strike

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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LOS ANGELES — A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers vo...

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How the WGA Won: A Behind the Scenes Look at the WGA Strike

Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.

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Writers' Union Declares "Huge Victory" With New Contract, Strike Coming To An End

LA Weekly | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Striking Writers May Head Back To Work This Week

ABC News | BRIAN ROONEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Hollywood Writers Consider Studio Offer

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-cripple...

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The WGA Strike For Dummies: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment

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It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.

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Deal To End Hollywood Strike May Come Next Week

New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...

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WGA Strikers To Lose Health Benefits

Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Before the WGA went on strike, its leaders repeatedly assured members they would retain eligibility within the guild-industry health plan for the dura...

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Labor Talks Underway Between Directors And Studios

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The union representing Hollywood directors began contract talks Saturday, with striking TV and film writers calculating how a deal might affect them. ...

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Reason: Paul Doesn't Care About 'Unions Or The Pickets'

Reason | David Weigel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Writers Guild Staffers Threaten To Strike Against WGA

New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Huckabee Clueless About Crossing Picket Line To Appear On Leno

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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...

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No Dice: Meeting Between Letterman And Writers Ends With No Deal

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Letterman To Meet With Writers Today

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...

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Strike Takes On Populist Tones As Writers Push For Social Change

Los Angeles Times | Jay A. Fernandez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Jimmy Kimmel To Return On Jan. 2 With Leno, Conan

AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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WGA: No Waivers For Golden Globes, Oscars

AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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Leno, Conan To Come Back (Without Writers) Jan. 2

AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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'...

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NBC Expected To Announce Late Night's January Return

Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Dana and Sam Schechner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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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...

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