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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Stagecraft Employees Leader Criticizes Writers Guild of America

Multichannel News: "Now, the talks between the writers and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have broken down, in part because of a WGA proposal that the AMPTP assign jurisdiction over reality TV and animation writers to WGA. Some of those writers have chosen to join a union already: IATSE. Members of IATSE Local 839, for instance, have been members of that trade union for 50 years, according to Short.

“Even if the AMPTP wanted to give the WGA jurisdiction (over) animation writers they couldn’t. It’s not theirs to give,” he said."

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