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British actors union Equity will decline work on all U.K. features starting Dec. I if an agreement with the Producers Alliance for Cinema & Television is not reached by then. [...]

HOLLYWOOD 'Scope' has become the buzz word around Screen Actors Guild headquarters in Hollywood. Scope is shorthand for the issue of guild members working outside the United States. Within the [...]

Teetering on the brink, both the writers and their multinational employers must ponder the true roots of their clash and figure out an accommodation. 'You can't be serious!' That's what [...]

HOLLYWOOD As if the Screen Actors Guild didn't have enough headaches, it needs to smooth over a series of sticky problems soon with the American Federation of Television & Radio […]

Czech TV employees have ended their seven-week strike after new acting general director Jiri Balvin met their demands to remove four managers and reinstate employees suspended during the row. The […]

Acrimony could poison upcoming writer-studio talks A week from now, writers will sit down with reps of the Hollywood studios and networks in an effort to ward off a strike. […]

HOLLYWOOD Negotiators have reported progress in contract talks for about 200 network news employees repped by the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, with the sessions recessed until Jan. [...]

HOLLYWOOD The network entertainment presidents hope to avoid actors and writers strikes next year, but the toppers admit that a work stoppage is probably inevitable. Speaking to a packed house [...]

'Force majeure'--it even sounds ominous. The possibility that Hollywood's studios could terminate contracts with creative talent under force majeure conditions has hung over the industry like the sword of Damocles [...]

Entrenched ... uncompromising ... lacking an exit strategy or even a Plan B. No, we're not talking about Iraq or Congress, but the position the Writers Guild of America may [...]

Can you imagine Ryan Seacrest waiting years to be paid for hosting 'American Idol'? That's the situation facing many presenters on shows aired by Mexico's TV Azteca, including Rafael Araneda [...]

It's the question every writer was asking last week: 'Where are you picketing?' Turns out not all strike locales are created equal. For one, a studio's front gates are the [...]

The urge to merge is back at SAG and AFTRA. The performers' unions are about to swap leaders. SAG chief Bob Pisano will leave next month after three-plus tumultuous years, […]

A serious fight is shaping up over writing for reality TV. The Writers Guild of America, which has virtually no coverage in the booming sector, last week signaled the issue […]

HOLLYWOOD A protracted labor squabble that included a lockout of 2,200 off-camera workers, hostile picket lines and staffing nightmares for producers finally pushed ABC and the National Assn. of Broadcast [...]

NEW YORK Nerves could be more frayed than usual at the March 23 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, with protesting broadcast union members trying to thumb their collective nose at [...]

With Nagano out of the way, labor troubles at the Eye web moved to the front burner - and could be about to boil over. CBS union members of the [...]