WGA staff union loses healthcare benefits amid strike
After seven weeks on strike, members of the Writers Guild Staff Union are losing their healthcare. The staff typically has access to the same plan offered to the Writers Guild members through the Producer-Writers Guild of America Health Plan. Employees represented by the staff union earn coverage on a month-to-month basis if they worked 31 hours per week the previous month. But since the group — which includes over 100 workers across legal, communications and residuals departments — has been on strike, they are no longer eligible. The staff union wrote on social media that it learned about the coverage loss through an online portal “just hours before this goes into effect.” “This puts children, spouses and their own employees into a further state of crisis. We are in week seven of our strike. This is just the latest attempt by WGAW to bust our union and break our strike,” the union wrote in the Instagram post. WGA West confirmed employees who receive health coverage on a month-to-month basis are no longer eligible for it …
