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On November 5, 2007 the Writer’s Guild of America East and the Writer’s Guild of America West initiated a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Cieply, 2007). The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) is a trade organization that represents the interests of 397 producers in the film and television industries (AMPTP Official Website). The strike lasted 100 days, finally ending on February 12, 2008. The strike put the economy of Los Angeles under severe strain with losses estimateds as high as $2.1 billion. The strike resulted from the regular renegotiation of standard contracts, or the Minimum Basic Agreement with the AMPTP. According to contract proposals from the Writers Guild of America (WGA)WGA, issues arose between the WGA Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the AMPTP over DVD residuals, union jurisdiction of animation and reality program writers, and compensation for digital technology called “‘new......

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