Writers Guild Union Makes ‘Strike-Ending’ Offer as Labor Fight Drags On

Writers Guild of America West staff union moves to shut down strike

A binding arbitration proposal exposes the union’s betrayal, ending the strike by surrendering workers’ power and subordinating struggle to management-controlled processes.

‘Scab!’: WGA Standoff With Striking Staff Gets Heated as Deal Remains Elusive

Tensions are starting to boil over between the Writers Guild of America West and its striking staffers, who have been without paychecks for going on six weeks. The Writers Guild Staff Union has been picketing outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters, where the WGA is holding negotiations with the major studios. On Thursday morning, many of the staffers shouted at the writers who serve on the WGA negotiating committee and at WGA managers as they entered …

Writers Guild union makes ‘strike-ending’ offer as labor fight drags on

Yesterday the Writers Guild Staff Union — the group of 100 or so employees of the WGA West that have been on strike since mid-February — made what they called a “strike-ending” offer to guild.

Writers Guild Staff Union Delivers 'Strike-Ending' Contract Proposal to WGA West

The Writers Guild Staff Union, which has been on strike for the past six weeks against the Writers Guild of America West, has sent a new proposal for its first collective bargaining agreement to the guild, calling it a “strike-ending” offer. The new proposal was released to the public by the union and was accompanied by an open letter to WGAW executive director Ellen Stutzman, urging Stutzman to either accept the proposal, to negotiate “lingerin…

WGA West Staff Delivers Updated Contract Proposal To Management

After trying to call WGA West leadership back to the bargaining table last weekend to seemingly no avail, the guild’s staff union is now taking a different approach. The WGSU delivered a new, “strike-ending” proposal to executive director Ellen Stutzman on Thursday as the staff’s work stoppage nears the end of its sixth week. “This […]

The Writers Guild Staff Union, on strike for almost six weeks, has offered a contract proposal to WGA West management, seeking a response by Monday at midnight

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