WGA Sets Strike Rules

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The WGA clearly wants to send a signal. The guild has formulated strike rules that would impose an exceptionally aggressive stance on its 12,000 members, Variety reports.


In addition to a ban on any guild-covered work in features and TV, a draft recap of the WGA rules said the guild plans to prohibit any writing for new media and declare that writers can’t do animated features — even though that realm is not under WGA jurisdiction.


The WGA didn’t specify what the penalties would be for violating the rules. It’s also asserting that nonmembers who perform banned work during a strike will be barred from joining the guild in the future.


Guild hasn’t issued the regulations officially and will probably not do so until after it obtains strike authorization from members next week. Deadline for ballots is Oct. 18 — 13 days before the current WGA contract expires.


But news of the rules began circulating Wednesday as the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers met in the afternoon in their eighth face-to-face session; they plan to resume talks this ayem. The two sides have achieved no progress during the previous sessions and have simply blamed each other for taking untenable stances.


The two meetings this week have focused on the WGA’s proposal to double DVD residuals. In a statement after Wednesday’s session, AMPTP president Nick Counter said the meeting consisted of discussions on “discrepancies in the data presented by the WGA.”


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