The screenwriters union extended contract negotiations with the agencies that represent them, hours before a midnight deadline Saturday night
April 7, 2019 2:18 p.m. ET
. The Writers Guild of America had been threatening to fire agents en masse unless the two sides could agree to new terms of employment. Moving to pause the mass firing and try to hash out a new pact came as the current framework agreement was set to expire. The union wants a new deal prohibiting agents from making lucrative side deals that the union alleges are ripe with conflicts of...
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