The WGA strike has not yet run out of steam.
About 1,000 members and supporters -- many from SAG -- showed up outside Fox for a "Unity Day" rally and picket to highlight the support between the guilds.
SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg spoke at from a small platform in front of the studio and stressed the need for better terms in new media. He noted that the 1985 deal establishing homevid residual formulas has caused a cumulative loss of $1.5 billion for WGA members and $4.5 billion for SAG members since then.
"We are not going to let that happen again on new media," he declared.
-- Dave McNary
About 1,000 members and supporters -- many from SAG -- showed up outside Fox for a "Unity Day" rally and picket to highlight the support between the guilds.
SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg spoke at from a small platform in front of the studio and stressed the need for better terms in new media. He noted that the 1985 deal establishing homevid residual formulas has caused a cumulative loss of $1.5 billion for WGA members and $4.5 billion for SAG members since then.
"We are not going to let that happen again on new media," he declared.
-- Dave McNary
Why no unity with The Newspaper Guild? (TNG). They support you.
"The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents staff employees of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), filed several unfair labor charges with the NLRB, according to a release. This is the same guild local that represents newsroom employees at several outlets, including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and Reuters.
MANGAN altered a ratified contract and won't sign until the staff accepts her bogus one.
“Out of respect for our striking fellow union members we tried to work this out quietly, and we even offered to submit the dispute to arbitration,” O’Meara said. “But the WGAE leadership’s anti-labor stance against its own workers and its filing of a baseless charge against us two weeks ago, while we were still trying to resolve the issues, forced us to reluctantly take this public step to defend our members and their contract.”
The Newspaper Guild also charged WGAE Executive Director Mona Mangan with threatening to discipline the staff's union representative for insubordination when she took issue with Mangan over her handling of the dispute." Coincidently, that employee was let go on Friday because of "budget cuts."
Another charge deals with the Writers Guild's attempt to exert financial pressure on TNG members by threatening to withdraw previously approved holiday bonuses unless the Newspaper Guild dropped its grievance over the wage increase owed, and signed the WGAE's revised contract.
Winship - all the standing beside Patric won't get you the respect of being a Union Leader. You & your council need to grow some & take care of this & contain your humiliation to the East. Shame on you all.
Posted by: TF | January 28, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Actually, it was almost 1200 WGA members alone, plus hundreds of SAG members, exact count unknown because SAG took the SAG signup sheets at the end of the day, no doubt for their own nefarious purposes.
Also, SAG took almost all our SAG in Support signs, and we'd like them back, please.
Many thanks to Tina Fey, Calista Flockhart, Jon Cryer, Justine and Jason Bateman, Zachary Quinto, and the hundreds of other SAG peeps who marched.
Posted by: Ashley Gable | January 29, 2008 at 01:42 PM