Members of the American Book Syndicate voted to support the expulsion of two books accused of writing during the 2023 strike, but to cancel a public reprimand for a writer who joking on Facebook.
The WGA Council voted earlier this year to expel Rome Ruth and Edward Drake to perform the banned “writing services”-what the union calls “writing scabies”-during the 148-day strike. They resumed, but 54 % of the voting membership supported the Board of Directors’s decision to conclude on Friday.
62 % -38 % of the vote, members of the general blame for Tim Doyle rejected, who faced behavior “harmful to the union’s well -being” to make an unsuccessful joke. On the hundred day of the strike, Dowle published a silhouette of a hanging man from a tree, while it was supposed to be a satisfactory signal to his suicide.
Doyle apologized for the joke, which some took as a sign of death. The process led to some internal concern that WGA was very far in the members ’speech.
“It will be great for WGA to make an effort to inform this announcement in this announcement,” Doyle said on Friday’s text, adding that he hopes to “want to back down from some damage to the past 18 months” by including my racist.
The members also supported the discipline of Julie Bush, a writer accused of providing a “script scenario” to a non -highly signed company during the strike. Bush got a year’s comment and a ban on action as a lifelong strike leader. Voice of the members 52 % -48 % to deny its appeal.
“I am very grateful to the members who voted for me,” Bush said. “I think the proximity
She said she intends to continue fighting about the legality of WGA work. “Now we go to the Ministry of Labor and NLRB.”
Ruth was an executive producer in “Sullivan’s Crossing”, a show filmed under the jurisdiction of the book from Canada in Nova Scotia. She was a double member of WGA-WGC, and worked under a concession that allows WGA to work for non-nasme companies in some cases. The waiver was ended at the beginning of the strike, which should have been prevented from writing in the show. Roth argued that she only supervised the book room, and denied breaking the rules. I also argued that under the constitution, the violation should have led to a fine, not expelled.
In a statement on Friday, Ruth said that she found that it was “disappointing” that the members of the WGA board of directors decided to send collective email messages during the voting round to direct the scale in their favor and impact unfairly on what was supposed to be a fair appeal.
She said: “This result will undoubtedly constitute the criteria that WGA and its council continue to work to move forward.” “I hope that the members will nominate them to run for the WGA Council before the deadline on May 15 to address these serious issues.”
Drake wrote and directed an independent movie entitled “Guns Up”, which was filmed during the strike. He was accused of conducting inappropriate text reviews during filming, and he refused to identify a non -member who claims to rewrite the end. He said he made simple text changes, which are not explicitly under the jurisdiction of WGA.
When requesting a response to the vote, Drake sent a clip on YouTube to the last scene of a classic movie: “Forget, Jake. It is the Chinese neighborhood.”
Under the union’s constitution, the book may appeal any majority specialization at an annual meeting. WGA has not held an annual meeting over the past six years, so the Board of Directors has chosen online voting instead.
Bush objected to this process, on the pretext that the Board of Directors had no authority to change the appeal process without a constitutional amendment.
In the terms of raw voting, the vote was as follows:
Ruth: 778-639 to expel
Drake: 769-652 to expel
Bush: 745-686 for one year comment, lifetime tape of work as a strike leader, general blame
Doyle: 915-557 to cancel the general blame
