The company has said a provision to reopen the guild contract on wages gave it the right to impose a pay cut at the paper.

Not enough to encourage a guild contract.

To maintain active status, guild members must have earned income from projects covered by guild contracts within four years.

The previous federation and guild contracts expired May 30.

Under the 1985 guild contract, the entire amount owed to the writer as a royalty must be paid when the series is sold in even one city.

With guild contracts set to expire within the next two years, the animosity is palpable.

They are reaching agreement with the creditors and forging a guild contract.

Peter Stone, the guild's president, said that no guild contract for league productions had existed previously, and that playwrights had negotiated individual agreements with each company.

Moving operations: The union charges that the networks are seeking a clause allowing them to move their news operations to other cities not covered by the guild contract.

He was working on a standard guild contract.