Introduction
RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
WRITERS' GUILD-INDUSTRY HEALTH FUND
This RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST is made
and entered into as of July 28, 1997. It amends in total the
Writers Guild-Broadcast Industry Health Benefit Fund Agreement
and Declaration of Trust dated the 6th day of June, 1968, as
amended on August 23, 1971, and as restated on September 23,
1973. The parties to the Agreement are the WRITERS GUILD OF
AMERICA, WEST, INC. and the WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST, INC.,
both hereinafter collectively referred to as "WGA" and signatory
members of the ALLIANCE OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION
PRODUCERS, INC. and AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, a Division of
AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., COLUMBIA BROADCASTING
SYSTEM, INC., and NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., and others
who are "Producers," hereinafter defined and the PRINCIPAL
TRUSTEES and ALTERNATE TRUSTEES, and their successors designated
in the manner hereinafter provided.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, WGA and the Producers are, or will, hereafter be,
bound by collective bargaining agreements, or supplements thereto,
which require periodic payments to trust funds by such Producers
for the purpose of providing health and welfare benefits (as such
benefits are more fully defined herein) for certain employees of
such Producers and, in the discretion of the Trustees, death
benefits for their beneficiaries; and
WHEREAS, to effectuate the aforesaid purpose, WGA and the
Producers established a trust fund to be used in the manner
hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises of
the parties, it is mutually understood and agreed as follows:
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