The WGA has just announced that they will go on strike beginning first thing Monday morning. The WGA West is currently holding a press conference and its members are in the midst of being notified.

Last night, over 3,000 members of the guild crowded into the Los Angeles Convention Center for a standing room only meeting at which they were told that the negotiating committee was unanimously recommending a strike. A council of the WGA West and WGA East then met this morning to discuss the recommendation and emerged with a unanimous approval of the work stoppage.

WGA members are expecting to receive orders this weekend regarding picketing and “strike support assignments”. The last writers strike was in 1988 and lasted five months.

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