WGA Schedules Saturday Meeting

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WGA leaders have scheduled a bicoastal powwow on Saturday, with membership meetings in Gotham and L.A. designed to sell the new contract agreement to the WGA’s rank-and-file and end the 3-month-old strike, Variety reports.


L.A.’s gathering will be held at 7 p.m. at the Shrine Auditorium. In New York, the WGA East has set its membership meeting for 2 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza.


At both gatherings, WGA leaders will go over the details of the proposed contract, and the reaction and questions from the members will likely signal whether the deal will pass muster in a ratification vote by the WGA’s 10,500 members.


Negotiating committee chief John Bowman has already told members that the official approval process through the committee and the WGA boards would not take place until after the membership meetings in L.A. and New York. If members back the deal at the meetings, the boards could quickly start the ratification process — and possibly issue a back-to-work order that could take effect as early as Monday.


Such a swift resolution would allow studios and networks to jumpstart the moribund pilot development process and the production of new episodes of some TV shows. It would also resolve the uncertainty that has swirled around the Feb. 24 Academy Awards ceremony since the strike began.


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