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Writers Guild Strike to End Wednesday: Leadership Votes to Conclude Historic Work Stoppage

26 Sep 2023
The 148-day writers’ strike, the second longest in Writers Guild of America history, will conclude on 12:01 am PT Wednesday thanks to a vote from guild leadership that officially authorized some 11,500 members to return to work. Tasks that for months were prohibited by strike rules — pitching, selling scripts, taking meetings, responding to notes — will then be sanctioned, while writers’ rooms can reconvene.
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SAG-AFTRA Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Strike Against Video Game Industry

26 Sep 2023
SAG-AFTRA members have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against 10 of the major video game companies. The vote was 98.32% in favor.  A total of 34,687 members cast ballots, representing a voting 27.47% of eligible voters. The guild’s last strike against the gaming companies, in 2016-17, lasted 183 days. The guild, meanwhile, has been on strike against the film and TV industry since July 14.
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Be A Director of Change with “Lights, Camera, Plastic?”

20 Sep 2023
“Lights, Camera, Plastic?” is a campaign with the goal of eliminating single-use plastics on screen. Experts agree that film and television subliminally dictate what is and isn’t acceptable to our collective society. Similar to the anti-smoking movement we can reduce societal dependency on single-use plastics by removing them from our beloved films and television shows.
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VFX Workers At Walt Disney Pictures Seek Unionization With IATSE

28 Aug 2023
Visual effects workers at Walt Disney Pictures are seeking to unionize with IATSE, which says that a supermajority of the 18 in-house VFX crewmembers employed there have signed cards with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to be represented by the union. Walt Disney Pictures is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios.