“Confronted with a growing budget deficit, the Writers Guild of America, West plans to cut about 20 positions by the end of the month. The guild, which has about 185 employees, notified worker representatives last week that layoffs, which could begin this week, were needed to plug a budget hole of more than $2 million, said two people familiar with the matter. The union, which has 8,000 members, has annual operating expenses of about $25 million. “