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WGA Rescinding Authority Of Managers & Lawyers To Procure Jobs For Members
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deadline.comHaving won its historic campaign to reshape the talent agency business, the WGA now is rescinding the authority of personal managers and attorneys to procure employment for its members, effective in 90 days.
The guild deputized managers and lawyers to perform the duties of agents back in March 2019, just weeks before it ordered its members to fire their agents who refused to sign its franchise agreement.
When the WGA’s campaign began that April, more than 7,000 members of the WGA West and East fired their agents.“Now that all the major agencies have signed franchise agreements,” the WGA West’s board said today in a letter to the guild’s members, “we are giving advance notice that the WGA is rescinding the limited manager and attorney
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