The negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America is expected to announce to thousands of guild members gathering tonight at the Los Angeles Convention Center its recommendation that the union call a strike. The meeting comes the day after talks on a new three-year contract between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down. The deadline for those negotiations expired at midnight Wednesday. The final say on whether and when a strike would begin is held by the guild's East and West Coast directors, who could meet as early as Friday. Board members are expected to support the recommendation of the committee.
See "Writers' negotiating committee expected to recommend a strike", Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2007