‘Scab!’: WGA Standoff With Striking Staff Gets Heated as Deal Remains Elusive

By Gene Maddaus

Gene Maddaus

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Tensions are starting to boil over between the Writers Guild of America West and its striking staffers, who have been without paychecks for going on six weeks.

The Writers Guild Staff Union has been picketing outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters, where the WGA is holding negotiations with the major studios. On Thursday morning, many of the staffers shouted at the writers who serve on the WGA negotiating committee and at WGA managers as they entered the building.

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