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LOS ANGELES – The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has announced the results of its 2010 WGAW Board of Directors election. The following eight members were elected to the WGAW’s Board of Directors: Robin Schiff (754 votes), Katherine Fugate (749 votes), Aaron Mendelsohn (741 votes), David A. Goodman (740 votes), Kathy Kiernan (691 votes), Christopher Keyser (610 votes), David Shore (554 votes), Mark Gunn (519 votes).
Fugate, Goodman, Gunn, Kiernan, and Mendelsohn are incumbents. Board members will serve a two-year term, effective immediately.
Results for the nine remaining Board of Directors candidates were: Matthew Weiner (507 votes), Karen Harris (463 votes), Timothy J. Lea (376 votes), Cheryl Heuton (290 votes), Naomi Foner (273 votes), Mick Betancourt (257 votes), Erica Montolfo (143 votes), Erich Hoeber (132 votes), Matt Pyken (111 votes). (Note: Steve Skrovan withdrew his candidacy after the final slate of WGAW BOD candidates was previously announced in July.)
A total of 1,273 valid ballots were cast. The ballot count was supervised by Robbin Johnson of Pacific Election Services, Inc., an independent firm.
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is this how they takle control ?
never give up… never surrender…
[hanen’t we heard that b e f ore ? : ))
HerbieFrog… wha’ the hell are you talking about?
Pyken – ha! Well deserved drubbing.
Will any of these people do anything to help guild writers? Will any of them help to stop the studio from forcing writers to do re-writes for free, or polishes under the threat of if you don’t maybe your project will just go away?
Imagine SAG allowing an actor to work for months without being paid. Or the DGA allowing a director’s contract to be ignored. Congratulations new WGA board members, now go out there and make some fucking changes in this pathetic excuse for a union…please!
George, you took the words out of my mouth. Why is it that guys who drive trucks have a better union than writers? Imagine asking a teamster to work for a few weeks for free. If the WGA can’t protect writers, writers need to unite anew and band together to stop the abuse. This is a story that Nikki should be writing about. Writers: STOP DOING FREE REWRITES! Without us, they have nothing.
George and Anon are right–the WGA has a sorry history of bloviation and then, ALWAYS….capitulation. It wastes time and money on useless crap (junkets, symposia, doomed efforts to organize non members, a laughably irrelevant PAC) while its members suffer from free rewrites, late pay, dwindling residuals, criminally low shares of DVD sales, etc. Will this new board make a difference? I sure as shit doubt it.
Here’s to hoping this new Board will now get rid of the Executive Director and his stooges.
Brad’s right–the WGA will be in the shitter as long as David Young is there. John Wells: We voted for you for a reason. Clean house!