WGA West Staff Authorizes Strike, Accusing Guild Leadership Of Bad Faith Bargaining Ahead Of Negotiations With AMPTP

Writers Guild of America's staff union authorizes strike, weeks before major negotiations

Three years after the major strike shut down Hollywood, the Writers Guild of America's staff union has authorized its own strike.

Writers Guild staff union votes to authorize strike against guild itself

As the Writers Guild of America West gears up for continuing negotiations with studios, in the hopes of staving off another creative work stoppage, the guild’s staffers have authorized a strike over alleged unfair labor practices by the union itself. The Writers Guild Staff Union — and the Pacific North West Staff Union, which represents the lawyers, research analysts, software engineers, and more within it — shared in an Instagram post Thursday…

WGA West Staff Authorizes Strike, Accusing Guild Leadership Of Bad Faith Bargaining Ahead Of Negotiations With AMPTP

Just weeks before the start of a high-stakes bargaining cycle with the major Hollywood studios, the Writers Guild of America’s own staff is threatening to go on strike. The Writers Guild Staff Union said late Thursday that 82% of its membership has voted to authorize the work stoppage, accusing guild management of bad faith bargaining. […]

WGA Staff Authorizes a Strike, Accuses Guild Leaders of Bargaining in Bad Faith

The staff of the Writers Guild of America West has voted to authorize a strike, just weeks before the union is due to sit down with the major studios. The union staffers, who organized last spring, have been demanding better wages and job protections in their first contract. Negotiations with WGA West management have been […]

Ahead of High-Profile Negotiations, Writers Guild West’s Own Staff Union Authorizes Strike

Eighty-two percent of unionized staffers voted to empower leaders to call a work stoppage, just months before the labor group is set to face the likes of Netflix and Paramount.