3rd Mediation in Writers’ Strike

Scriptwriters and producers today agreed to meet with a federal mediator Monday in an effort to resume talks in the 11-week-old writers’ strike that has begun to cripple the entertainment industry.

It will be the third such mediated session between the two sides. The last ended after only 20 minutes April 18, and a meeting March 14 also failed to bring results. The 9,000-member Writers Guild of America went on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on March 7 over issues of residual payments for reruns and works distributed in foreign countries, and creative control.