WGAE Goes After ABC & Soaps Producer

WRITERS GUILD, EAST FILES ARBITRATIONS CITING VIOLATIONS OF STRIKE TERMINATION AGREEMENT
 
      NEW YORK CITY – The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) today filed arbitration cases separately charging ABC and Corday Productions with violating the agreed-upon Strike Termination Agreement by retaining replacement workers on All My Children and Days Of Our Lives instead of allowing previously striking writers to return to their jobs. The Strike Termination Agreement entered into on February 11, 2008 clearly states “no replacement writer hired during the strike period shall be retained on a show over a striking writer who offers to return to work on the same show on which he or she was employed when the strike began.”
 
      The arbitrations charge that writers are being denied their rights to return to their jobs on All My Children (ABC) and Days Of Our Lives (Corday Productions).  The positions were not eliminated and are instead being filled by replacement writers who performed struck work during the recent 100-day Writers Guild strike.
 
      “The Strike Termination Agreement does not allow the retention of replacement writers in lieu of allowing striking writers to return to their jobs. ABC and Corday Productions are clearly violating this agreement,” explained Ira Cure, senior counsel for the Writers Guild of America, East. “They have left us no other option but to file arbitrations to ensure our members will be afforded their rights outlined under this agreement.”
 
      The companies have 10 days to respond and pick a mutually agreed upon arbitrator to hear the cases.

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6 Comments »

  1. Never forget, you hear that Ridley!

    Comment by P. Lee — April 1, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

  2. It’s about time! My only question is why THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL and THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS aren’t also included?

    Comment by Donna B — April 1, 2008 @ 3:33 pm

  3. I just thought of something. Why no mention of
    corporate giant Sony? Sony owns half of DAYS OF OUR
    LIVES. What must they be thinking about now?

    Comment by Donna B — April 1, 2008 @ 4:17 pm

  4. DonnaB…don’t agitate :-). Y&R is much improved by its’ FiCore writers, so leave Y&R alone :-).

    Comment by MarkH — April 1, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

  5. Not agitating, Mark! It’s just righteous. Y&R and
    B&B just need to find a legit way to do so! Y&R is already okay on one point - their former HW, Lynn
    Marie Latham.

    Comment by Donna B — April 1, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

  6. I know this is probably off-topic but South Park just did a genius episode which dealt with canada going on Strike but also had lots of references to the Writers’ Strike like “WGA” being uttered by a character and the whole deal with internet money.

    Trey and Matt are true geniuses.

    Comment by Arrested Development Fan — April 2, 2008 @ 7:52 pm

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