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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood writers voted overwhelmingly in favor of giving union negotiators the power to call a strike, moving one step closer to a production shutdown that would hamper studios and disrupt what viewers watch on television.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said 97.85% of members who voted supported allowing negotiators to order a work stoppage if they do not have a new contract by May 1. Nearly 80% of the group's 11,500 members voted.
In a release, the WGA bargaining committee said the group had expressed "collective strength, solidarity and the demand for meaningful change in overwhelming numbers."
Writers...