Studios in Burbank on Nov. 6, 2007. Photo by Ron Tammariello....Verrone, WGAW President, 2005-2009. On February 12, 2008, then-WGAW President Patric M....On October 25, 2007, negotiations broke down over jurisdiction and new media, triggering the strike.

Carew joined about four months after the September 11, 2001 attacks, enlisting as a private at the age...“I volunteered to return to active duty as a Reservist in 2006 to train to be an intelligence interrogator...Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq in 2008. .

In 2007, four decades after getting kicked out of school and off the football team at Sul Ross State...series The Equalizer, and the teleplay for the films Last Light and Lily in Winter, as well as the 2009...Eisele and Jeffrey Poro were awarded the 2008 Paul Selvin Award for The Great Debaters.   .

and 2007-’08....During the 2007-’08 strike, I became involved with the Guild on a more significant level....I met with the Nominating Committee, I threw my hat in the ring, and I won a seat in 2008, in no small

reflects on what it was like to be elected the WGAW's first Latino/a board member and serving during the 2007...We were gathering to hear Guild leadership speak during the 2007 Writers Strike....There had been few Black writers and women writers who served as board members, but up until that time, 2006...on what it was like to be elected the WGAW's first Latino/a board member and serving during the 2007

were formed in the 2000s: the Gay and Lesbian Writers Committee, now the LGBTQ+ Writers Committee, in 2002...; the Asian American Writers Committee, also in 2002; the American Indian Writers Committee, now the...Native American & Indigenous Writers Committee, in 2008; and the Middle Eastern Writers Committee, in

Camino, Gilligan is a 19-time Writers Guild Awards nominee and three-time recipient dating back to 2009...series and the screenplay for Hancock (with Vy Vincent Ngo) before the premiere of Breaking Bad in 2008

“When I got onto the bus with Hillary in 2007, I was like, ‘I’m riding this to the White House!’...Chozick poured the joys and agonies of Clinton’s last doomed presidential bid into her acclaimed 2018

“In 2001, our daughter was the 44th child born by surrogacy to gay men,” Walker says....Not long after their son was born in 2005, he pretty much stopped writing.

Walker’s story was among 10 LWSD films licensed by Partnership Media to highlight the release of the 2018...Angeles, and is working on a series on Olympians to coincide with Los Angeles hosting the Olympics in 2028

WGAW’s Asian American Writers Committee (AAWC) has had much to celebrate since its inception in 2002...When he started out in the industry as an actor in 2001, “my first role was a high school nerd on the

Albert Kim had recently joined the Guild when he picketed at MBS during the 2007-‘08 strike....“I wasn’t in the Guild during 2007-‘08, so this was my first picket, and it was really powerful to understand...the husband-and-wife team of WGAW members André and Maria Jacquemetton had picketed briefly at MBS in 2007

Formed in 2008, the WGAW PAC endorses candidates in both congressional and California state races.

In 2008, a Barnard College English and film studies major, Karlin met Aniello at New York’s Upright Citizens

reflects on what it was like to be elected the WGAW's first Latino/a board member and serving during the 2007

Screenwriters cite multiple reasons to celebrate the Guild’s winning a guaranteed second step for scripts under 200%...Since the provision applies to spec sales, writers who are paid under 200% of the minimum for a spec...The second step is required whenever a writer is hired for a first draft screenplay for 200% of minimum

for several years when writers’ assistants and script coordinators organized under IATSE Local 871 in 2018

In 2018, when they were negotiating with Netflix, the brothers emphasized from the outset that Blood

“I would get 100 checks for $1.36 and 200 for $4.13,” he recalled.

I was a staff writer in 2003 on Las Vegas...super old, yeah, I get it...so, I love hearing from the Boot

were—fighting AI, fair wages, and better working conditions,” said Anupam Nigam, a WGAW member since 2004

The 2006 romcom The Holiday (written by Nancy Meyers) tells the story of two women who swap houses while

weeks after commencement when an invoice is submitted and 25% on delivery for writers who are paid 200%

Soto to draft language that will increase the minimum wage for tourism workers to $30 an hour by July 2028

There’s just no way to learn to do this without learning on the job,” said Quioh, a WGAW member since 2018

In 2005, while working as a junior executive for Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Leonard sought

Her 2004 novel, Liberating Paris, set in small-town Paris, Arkansas, is the story of six best friends

$100 grocery store gift cards to writers or support staff around the country who have requested them. 200

After my mother became ill with cancer in 2006 and passed away five months later, I suffered a manic

In 2018, Makowsky was at the three-for-one table at his local Barnes & Noble and—needing a third book

The two men met during the 2007-‘08 strike when Goodman was already a WGAW Board member and Keyser was

In 2023, the WGA won a guaranteed second step for scripts under 200% of minimum in the MBA.

of you to be up here in 20 years teaching the next generation,” Mazzara told the group of more than 200

documents all of this in his book Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (Scribner 2003

place before the 2023 strike when the union won mandatory two-step deals for screenwriters working at 200%

Ross and Barnes’ creative relationship dates back to their work on the 2018 documentary Hale County This

In fact, the Guild’s Ask a Screenwriter program gives members their pick of more than 200 screenwriters

I, Tonya earned Rogers a nomination from the Writers Guild Awards for Original Screenplay in 2018.

The sequel to Wizards of Waverly Place (which ran from 2007-‘12) uses magic playfully and as a means

In 1991, Neal Jimenez and Eric Bergren penned the adaptation The Dark Wind; then in 2002 Leaphorn showed

that he responded so strongly, in December of 2020, when he happened upon Erasure, Percival Everett’s 2001

had negotiated for herself before the strike would be guaranteed for writers who work for less than 200

I moved out here in 2018, and 2020 is when I started looking for representation.