non è colpa di rabbit, ho modificato io il post perchè avevo la fonte (che è nsc), che a sua volta aveva come fonte una speculazione riportata su twop (che non so chi avesse come fonte).
Ma passando ai fatti e tralasciando le mere speculazioni, la
WGA rende noto che alcuni accordi sono in corso con le singole major, tra cui la CBS e la United Artists. Fox ancora niente. Ma almeno qualcosa si smuove.
Sull'accordo con la CBS:
News writers reach agreement with CBS
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By Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 10, 2008
NEW YORK -- The Writers Guild of America announced Wednesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with CBS on a new contract for more than 500 news writers, editors, desk assistants, production assistants, graphic artists, promotion writers and researchers who work for the network's television and radio operations.
The CBS employees, who are based in New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles, have worked without a contract since April 2005. Negotiations had been stalled since November 2006, and less than two months ago, employees voted to authorize a strike, although the union never called for one.
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The four-year contract, which still must be approved by the guild's membership, grants CBS employees two 3.5% raises in the next two years. (Most employees will also receive an additional one-time payment of $3,700.) The union had been seeking a 3% raise each year, as well as retroactive pay, which it did not receive.
But the guild succeeded in getting CBS to drop its efforts to create a two-tiered salary scale that would have meant lower wage increases for local radio employees than for television and network radio staffers. The network also withdrew its demand to merge guild and non-guild newsrooms, the union said.
"We're happy," said Mona Mangan, executive director of the Writers Guild of America, East. "We're just sorry it took so long to get to the final deal. The company wanted things from us that were almost impossible."
CBS released a statement saying it was also pleased.
"We are gratified that a tentative agreement has been reached so that CBS and its valued WGA news employees can put this chapter behind us," the network said.
LinkUnited Artist:
For our first joint communication of 2008, we are pleased to report very good news. This morning, United Artists signed an independent agreement. This company, now co-owned by Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise, has been legendary for its collaborative and cooperative relationships with writers and the talent community, so it is only fitting that it be the first film studio to make an agreement with us.
This agreement is virtually identical to the agreement signed by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants (contract_07/wwp_exec.pdf). It features all the proposals we were preparing to make when the conglomerates left the bargaining table a month ago. Those proposals include appropriate minimums and residuals for new media (whether streamed or downloaded, as well as original made-for content), along with basic cable and pay-TV increases, feature animation and reality TV coverage, union solidarity language, and important enforcement, auditing, and arbitration considerations
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..qualcuno mi sa dare una speranza?
bye bye