Yes, there’s a writers strike going on, but the WGA West is also conducting an officer and board election, and the candidates, though they all support the strike, are expressing a wide range of other concerns in statements they’ve posted on the guild’s election site.
Meredith Stiehm, who’s running for re-election as president, hasn’t posted her statement yet, but all the other officer candidates have, and they have a lot to say.
Rich Talarico, a Peabody Award winner and four-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer who’s perhaps best known for his work on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele, writes that “Achieving transparency regarding writer payments and accounting practices, will be the cornerstones of my leadership.
Too often, writers who work in good faith are routinely met with confusing payment charts, unclear royalty checks, and unverifiable systems.
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