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With the end of the WGA’s current film and TV contract with AMPTP only five months away and no talks on the horizon, the TV studios are starting to prepare for a potential strike. It has become standard procedure for the major TV companies to make arrangements for a possible work stoppage every time the writers…

The American Federation of Musicians failed to achieve its main goal in its recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract – winning residuals for musicians' work on episodic TV shows made for streaming services. Even so, the 80,000-member union says it will keep fighting for those payments when the…

UPDATED with comment from union president: The American Federation of Musicians has reached a tentative deal for a new film and TV contract with management's AMPTP. The new two-year deal still must be ratified by the union's members. "The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the American Federation…

The WGA has appointed the members to its negotiating committee in the run-up to its talks with management's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract. See the list below. The current pact expires on May 1. No date has been set for the talks to begin, and it's not clear whether…

Vivian Lien has been promoted to VP Labor Relations at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – the trade association that represents the major studios in their contract negotiations with Hollywood's labor unions. Lien joined the AMPTP in 2013 as counsel before being promoted to Senior Counsel in…

In its efforts to "divide and conquer" Hollywood's talent agencies while preparing for negotiations for a new film and TV contract, the WGA told its members today that it "continues to have useful discussions with several individual agencies. All of them have asked for confidentiality, and honoring those requests is…

The WGA is gearing up for what promises to be a contentious negotiation for a new film and TV contract amid its ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agencies, which is now in its seventh month. The guild's current pact with management's AMPTP expires on May 1, and the WGA soon will be holding membership meetings to…

Musicians demanding a fair film and TV contract took their complaints today to the home of Alan Bergman, co-chair of Walt Disney Studios. Rolling up to his house in open-air tour vans, the musicians chanted” "Alan Bergman can't you hear? We will fight for our career." One of the protesters yelled through a bull horn…

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler took time out from the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump today to address a musicians rally in New York City. The American Federation of Musicians, in its contract talks with management's AMPTP, is demanding residuals from films and TV shows made…

David Gross has been named CEO of Contract Services, the entertainment industry trust fund that administers the safety, training and roster provisions of the collective bargaining agreements between management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the film and television industry's West Coast…

Demanding a fair contract, 25 chanting members of the American Federation of Musicians held a rally – accompanied by a raucous brass band – outside the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night in New York City, where Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger was talking to Oprah Winfrey about his new book that touts his…

Now that the WGA West election is over – with President David A. Goodman and all of his running mates sweeping to victory – the WGA East election is set to conclude on Thursday, with President Beau Willimon, running unopposed, and his Unity Slate poised to carry the day as well. And as with the election in the West…