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Writers Guild Sets New Negotiations Session With Studios, Streamers for Aug. 11
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Our committee returns to the bargaining table ready to make a fair deal, knowing the unified WGA membership stands behind us and buoyed by the ongoing support of our union allies.
Following the Aug. 4 meeting, the WGA informed members that the AMPTP was seeking to use the deal that the Directors Guild of America agreed to earlier this summer as a template for shared issues like pay increases and expressed a willingness to increase its offer on a few writer-specific TV minimums — but not such core writer issues as the minimum size of writers rooms or success-based residuals.
“We challenge the studios and AMPTP to come to the meeting they called for [last] Friday with a new playbook: Be willing to make a fair deal and begin to repair the damage your strikes and your business practices have caused the workers in this industry,” the WGA’s 2023 negotiating committee wrote.
That missive prompted the AMPTP to send off a terse press statement of its own, describing the union’s rhetoric as “unfortunate.” The group added, “This strike has hurt thousands of people in this industry, and we take that very seriously.
Now on its 101st day, the writers strike has contributed to what is essentially a shutdown of unionized, scripted production in the U.S. and, in some cases, abroad, affecting projects including Deadpool 3 and Gladiator 2.
Meanwhile, as performers union SAG-AFTRA joined the picket lines July 14, production on major films and television series have also been delayed, from Marvel’s Blade to Netflix’s Stranger Things.
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