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Oct 30, 2007 1:46 pm US/Pacific

Teamsters Members Can Honor WGA Picket Lines

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A powerful Hollywood Teamsters branch has told its 4,500 members they can honor picket lines if TV and film writers strike this week.

Teamsters Local 399 advised its members in a Web posting late Monday that as a union, it has a legal obligation to honor its contracts with producers.

But the local, which represents truck drivers, casting directors and location managers, says the clause does not apply to individuals, who are protected by federal law from employee retribution should they decide to honor picket lines.

Negotiators for the 12,000-member Writers Guild of America and the group representing producers are set to meet with a federal mediator to try to break a stalemate in contract talks before the current pact expires at midnight Wednesday.

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