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Feb 5, 2008 8:58 pm US/Pacific
Striking Writers To Get Briefing On Contract Talks
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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A man joins members of the Writers Guild of America, East, picket line in front of Rockefeller Center in New York on Nov. 5, 2007, the first day of the TV and film writers' strike.
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Members of the striking Writers Guild of America will gather Saturday in Los Angeles and New York to be briefed on a possible contract deal with Hollywood studios.
If writers are pleased with what they hear, the meetings could be a major step toward a resolution of the 3-month-old strike.
Guild leaders remain cautious about a settlement. In an e-mail sent late yesterday to guild members, negotiations committee chief John Bowman said important progress had been made but significant points remained to be settled.
Bowman says the guild won't make a formal decision on the proposed contract until the informational membership meetings are held Saturday,
The sessions will be closed to the media.
The writers strike centers on the issue of new-media compensation.
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