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News & Commentary May 16, 2023
https://onlabor.org/may-16-2023/
By Iman Masmoudi
Iman Masmoudi is a student at Harvard Law School.
Writers’ Union allows Tony Broadcast to proceed; and GE reaches important neutrality agreement with unions ahead of potential turbine construction plant.
As Elyse reported yesterday, the Tony Awards were on the chopping block most recently during the national Writers’ Guild strike, however, last night the Union agreed to allow the broadcast. The Awards show usually features scripted content and comedic banter created by writers, but the Guild said it will not grant a waiver to striking writers’ to participate. Instead, in recognition of the important opportunity for Broadway that the show represents, the Guild will not picket the show and will allow it to proceed, but without any scripted material by screenwriters. Additionally, the Tony Awards agreed it would not include draft materials already written before the strike began. The Awards are a crucial annual opportunity to market Broadway shows, and their cancellation could have been very damaging to an already struggling industry. The Writers Guild stated on Monday evening that, “[a]s they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike.”+
FULL story at link above.