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WGA Holds Solidarity Rally With Teamsters and Other Hollywood Unions: ‘We All Feel Pumped, United’

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America West held a rally Wednesday night to demonstrate solidarity with the other Hollywood unions in their collective contract battles against Hollywood’s major employers.

About 1,800 guild members attended the meeting at the Shrine Auditorium, and heard from WGA leaders about the reasons behind the two-day old strike.

One of the stars of the show, however, was Lindsay Dougherty, the 39-year-old leader of Teamsters Local 399. “We’re all sticking together,” Dougherty told Variety outside the event. “We have an opportunity to change things in this industry, and the only way we’re going to do that is if we’re together.” The Teamsters have a contract in place through July 31, 2024, and so cannot join the strike.

But under their contract, Teamsters cannot be disciplined for refusing to cross established picket lines. “Every single truck that we know of has not crossed,” she said.

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