Writers Guild of America, East





































Writers Guild of America, East
Writers Guild of America East logo.png
Founded 1951 (1951)
Members 3,718 (2014)[1]
Affiliation
AFL-CIO, IAWG, IFJ, UNI
Key people

  • Beau Willimon, President
Office location 250 Hudson Street,
New York City
Country United States
Website www.wgaeast.org

The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a labor union representing film and television writers as well as employees of television and radio news.


The Writers Guild of America, East is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America, West. Together the guilds administer the Writers Guild of America Awards. It is an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, and the AFL–CIO.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 2007–2008 strike


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





History





Membership (US records)[2]






Finances (US records; ×$1000)[2]






     Assets      Liabilities      Receipts      Disbursements


WGAE had its beginnings in 1912, when the Authors' League of America (ALA) was formed by some 350 book and magazine authors, as well as dramatists.[3] In 1921, this group split into two branches of the League: the Dramatists Guild of America for writers of radio and stage drama and the Authors Guild for novelists and nonfiction book and magazine authors.


That same year, the Screen Writers Guild came into existence in Hollywood, California, but was "little more than a social organization", according to the WGAe's website, until the Great Depression of the 1930s and the growth of the organized labor movement impelled it to take a more active role in negotiating and guaranteeing writers' contractual rights and protections.


In 1933, the ALA and SWG joined forces, and two years later, with passage of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, called for an election to represent writers of films in collective bargaining agreements; the first such agreement was signed in 1942. Meanwhile, the Radio Writers Guild was formed in New York and became part of the ALA.


A Television Writers Group within the ALA and a separate group, the Television Writers of America, each began representing writers for the nascent television industry beginning in the late 1940s. In 1951, the ALA reorganized into the Writers' Guild of America East and West, in recognition of the growing complexity of representing members in many different fields of entertainment writing. Writers working in motion pictures, TV and radio would be represented by these two new guilds, while the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild remained as branches of the ALA to represent print-media writers. The WGAW and WGAE have bargained for writers in movies, TV and radio since 1954.[4]


The liberal anti-communist faction of WGAW and WGAE, initially collaborated with the Hollywood movie studio/network heads and the U.S. government when they drove most writers (who originally formed the Screen Writers Guild and the Writers Guild East unions) out of the domestic entertainment industry during the McCarthy Era.[citation needed]


The WGAE became affiliated with the AFL-CIO in 1989, although its sister group WGAW did not join and has not since.


On August 27, 2006, WGAE reached an agreement with the producers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, allowing writers on the show to become guild members.[5]



2007–2008 strike


Main article: 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike

On November 2, 2007, both branches of the guild, East and West, called a strike against all television networks and cable channels over writers' share of revenues from DVD releases, Internet, cell-phone network, and other new-media uses of programs and films written by members. The strike vote followed the expiration of the guild's then-current contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The strike ceased on February 12, 2008.



See also





  • Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW)


  • International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG)

  • Writers Guild of America Award

  • 1960 Writers Guild of America strike

  • 1988 Writers Guild of America strike


  • 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike
    • Effect of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike on television


  • WGA screenwriting credit system

  • WGA script registration service



References





  1. ^ U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards. File number 000-298. Report submitted August 28, 2014.


  2. ^ ab U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards. File number 000-298. (Search)


  3. ^ "A Brief History". wgaeast.org. Retrieved May 5, 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ WGAE official website history


  5. ^ Dylan (2006-08-28). "Daily Show Negotiates Writer's Guild Contract". mediabistro.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-10-12.




External links




  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata

  • WGA East Registry (www.wgaeast.org/script_reg/)

  • Writer Action a BBS for Guild Members

  • Producer Writer's Guild of America Pension & Health Funds











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