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WGA DENOUNCES SOAP OPERA WRITERS WHO WENT FI-CORE
Wednesday, April 23 2008
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Not-yet-healed wounds incurred during the writers' strike when several writers of soap operas went fi-core (that is, chose to leave the WGA permanently but continue to pay dues) were reopened Tuesday when the WGA East made the names of those writers public and urged that they be "held at arm's length by the rest of us and judged accountable for what they are -- strikebreakers whose actions placed everything for which we fought so hard at risk." At the time of the strike, several of the writers named by the guild on Tuesday expressed fear that their shows would go off the air for good without scripts and that they would be left without jobs. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) immediately came to their defense, charging that the WGA is seeking, in effect, to blacklist the fi-core writers. "It is clear that the WGA leadership is seeking to deny employment to these writers in the future," the AMPTP said in a statement as it filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the guild.
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