On Friday, the American Book Syndicate asked members of disciplinary measures against four of their brothers accused of violating the union’s bases during the 2023 strike.
Three of the book – Edward John Drake, Rome Roth and Julie Bush – accused of performing the “writing services” banned in a violation of union solidarity. He is a fourth member, Tim Doyle, accused of making an unsuccessful joke in a collection of Facebook book.
The Waga West Council voted for Drake and Roth’s expulsion, which is the most severe forms of punishment due to violations of the union’s ruling. Bush gave a temporary comment and a lifetime ban on action as a captain is a strike, while Dowle got the general blame.
All four appeal to discipline for general membership. Three other members, who were not recognized, were condemned by the trial writing committees during the strike. These members were elected not to appeal.
The appeal will be voted by voting online from 6 to 9 May.
In the written notes, each of the four book asked the membership of the council’s decision. Many of them argued that they were subjected to an unfair operation, and he was tormented with fear of the general shame and the consequences that followed on their career.
Drake wrote: “The board of directors should not be able to intimidate or conduct unfair experiences, or get rid of retaliatory discipline without due legal procedures, or ignore the recommendations of their committees and investigators,” Drake wrote. “This was a terrible ordeal, I hope you never have to go.
Drake was an independent movie writer, “Guns Up”, who was produced in New Jersey during the strike. The WGAW Council claimed that Drake participated in “writing the scabies” during production, and that it refused to hand the drafts of the text to the union’s investigators. Drake was also accused of refusing to get to know someone who rewrites the end of the movie, and he was not a member of the union.
The council wrote in a statement of its position: “The Drake’s trial committee explained the importance of determining the identity of the beating, so that the union can take action against the striker of the strike.” “Drake is still refusing.”
Drake argued that he was punished for his refusal to “name Asma”. He also argued that he made “modifications” and “amendments” to the scenario as the director of the film, and that he did this according to the directives of the directors in America. These simple cinematic reviews are the subject of decades -long dispute between WGA and DGA.
The WGA trial committee recommended a 18 -month suspension, and the Drake membership was restored if he would determine the person who rewrote the end. The Board of Directors voted to increase discipline to expel it and define Drake publicly. According to Drake’s resumption, Adam Konofer, one of the most prominent leaders of the strike.
Drake wrote: “If you believe that Adam Konofer and the council had to explain the reason for facing the recommendations of their investigators, and the Chairman of the Committee for Compliance of the Strong Rules) and the trial committee – the regulations of the WGAW government to ensure a fair treatment of its members – then please vote to cancel their expulsion.”
In response, the WGA board argued that Drake showed “contempt” of the procedures, and he stormed a hearing on several occasions.
The council wrote: “Every member of the union knows the meaning of this when there is a blow: pencils.” “Edward Drake did not descend the pencils during the strike.”
A Canadian writer Roth was working in the “Sullivan’s Crossing” series in Nova Scotia when the strike began. According to the WGA Council, two books in the exhibition informed the union that Roth participated in the book enlargement room and participated in another writing activity during the strike.
“Evidence has proven that during the strike, stories, the revised outlines, rewriting text programs, gave instructions, trends or suggestions to other writers regarding economics and plasys,” WGAW Board of Directors wrote in his statement.
In her defense, Roth argued that she had finished her writing as soon as the strike began, and continued to show as an unwritten executive producer. She wrote that she was “shocked” of harsh discipline, and she did not expect that WGA will “explain my productive work as” performing writing services. “
Ruth, who was also an executive producer in “Virgin River”, is a double member of WGA and Criters Guild of Canada. The exhibition was produced under WGC Judicial State, which requires Roth to obtain a waiver from WGA because the production company was not signed for the WGA contract. Once the strike began, the waiver was canceled, which prevents it from performing the disgusting writing services.
She also stated that the two books that they witnessed were biased against personal grievances. She also stated that the head of the trial committee resigned after he decided to “defective and unfair.”
“I understand and respect the fact that you have sacrificed a lot during the strike,” she wrote. “Please note that I will never cause you harm or intentionally.
Bush was also charged with violating the union’s ban against work for non -nuns. According to the documents, Bush was accused of operating in a revised draft of the experimental text of an offer about Elon Musk and Tesla on May 22, three weeks after the strike.
“It cannot be tolerated with the writing of scabies,” Board the Board of Directors. “It is a curse of the culture of solidarity between the membership that makes the union of fighting.”
Bush fought the charge. She said that her lawyer closed the deal to display on the eve of the strike, and that she exchanged many messages with WGA lawyers to make sure that he was fine.
It turned out that it did not break the base of the strike, because the company was not signed. She also said that the company promised to become signed, but later it retracted its agreement and refused to pay it.
The trial committee recommended a special letter of supervision and a tape to work as a three -year strike leader. The Board of Directors promoted the punishment to the comment until May 2026, and a lifelong ban on work as a leader, and general control.
In her resumption, she argued that she had not violated the base against work for a non -famous company, partly because she never received salaries. She also argued that the only reason WGA discovered about the case was that she came to the union in order to help.
“However, the same information that she provided secretly to obtain assistance against a tampering company has finally turned and its weapons by the union employees to build the case against me,” she wrote. “They are trying to give an example of me. But I am not an example. I am a human being.”
WGA defended her decision to make Bush’s public decision.
“The decision of the Council is rooted in transparency,” the Board of Directors wrote. “Membership has the right to know when another member undermines this collective work, as Bush did. The membership has the right to know the consequences of those who chose writing during the strike.”
Dowlane was publicly monitored by great membership last July to a bad attempt in a Facebook joke. In August 2023, a member of the Wga Writers Facebook group posted on the strike teacher: “Happy Day, for all who notice …”
“I just raised my trees!” Dwell, with a silhouette image of a hanging man from a tree branch.
Dowel claimed that the image was aimed at referring to his suicide, and that it was “gunwife” about the anxiety that the book was feeling about the future of industry. But some inside the group took the matter as racist photography of the ropes.
Doyle was accused of violating the WGA constitution by engaging in “tax behavior on the welfare of the union.” A trial committee voted to give him a special paper, and that Dowle was regretted and was not intending to publish a photo of the execution. The committee also found that it failed to calculate the damage of its actions completely or provide a loyal apology.
The Board of Directors promoted the discipline to the general blame, and pushed to fears that he was watching his speech on social media.
“The Board of Directors is entitled to control its behavior, and considers it harmful to the interests of its members, especially in the event of this behavior publicly,” he found the board of directors. “This blame is in itself a form of freedom of expression.”
In response, Doyle said that he was still “full” for his actions, and to communicate to apologize to those who offended him. He also wrote that it is “painful” to feel the rush of the writing community, and he said that the blame talks about “smallness” in the situation, refusing to forgive, and the failure of sympathy.
Doyle wrote: “It is clear that these are difficult times for our unions (our industry, our country and our planet), and a frustrating time for the book – a lot of bad news and a very small number of real victories.” “We cannot see any of the responsible senior presidents. Do people think about lending a colleague who may be satisfied as a funeral prize?”
He urged the membership of the membership to support the public blame.
The Board of Directors wrote, “It was not” in the blacklist, “or deprived of any of the rights of the current members in the union. “He was summoned to his behavior that harmed the union members.”
WGA members were encouraged during the strike to report cases of breaking the strike to the union. The committee of compliance with the hunger rules, led by the writer Glen Mazara, has achieved dozens of these allegations, according to the council’s response to Drake.
