Verrone, Winship say changes show continued solidarity
Members of the WGA East and West have got passed trey amendments to the guild�s feature screenwriting credit policy.
A total of 1,619 ballots were cast by members. WGA rules expect any change to its Credits Manual be arrange to a vote by its roughly 12,000 members.
Members passed by 90% of the vote to allow the guild�s arbitration committee to teleconference with each other and the arbitration adviser if they�re unable to reach an unanimous conclusion when determinative writing credits.
Additionally, voters passed by 86% an amendment eliminating the "any material contribution" standard that allowed the arbitrament committee to give course credit to production executives or production executive director teams without any specific percentage demand.
With the new amendment, writers experience credit if they canful they can prove they contributed more than 33% of the script as a kickoff writer or a writer adaptation or if they acted as a subsequent writer and contributed 50% on an original screenplay.
A add up of 83% of the writers voting passed an amendment that reduced the percentage for contributions of subsequent writers who ar part of a production executive team. The amendment changed screenplay credit from "substantially more than than 60%" to "more than than 50%."
WGAW president Patric Verrone and WGAE chief Executive Michael Winship said in a statement the changes are "in time another reading of our continued growing solidarity."
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