WGA Response to Studios Indicates No Quick End to Strike
16.08.2023 - 00:37
/ variety.com
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America responded Tuesday to the latest proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, but any hopes for an easy resolution of the 106-day strike were quickly dispelled. The WGA did bend slightly on a few items, according to sources familiar with the talks. But the union negotiators did not offer the significant concessions that the studio side was looking for in response to its own offer.
The guild has continued to hold to its proposal for a minimum staff size for TV writers, though it offered to lower the minimum by one writer. But the WGA was unimpressed with the AMPTP’s offer to give showrunners the authority to hire up to a certain minimum, which would increase based on the production budget. By no means is that the only sticking point.
The two sides remain at odds on items across the board, including streaming residuals and a higher minimum tier for TV writer-producers. Multiple studio sources had been optimistic that the AMPTP’s latest offer would mark a breakthrough in the talks. But WGA negotiators had counseled caution, warning members not to trust studio leaks suggesting that a deal was at hand.Until @ellenstutzman descends from the heavens radiant in her puissance or alternatively rises from the her dark domain, her dread command manifest upon her brow — depending which raiment of power she has donned that day — and tells you there is a deal, DO.
NOT. BELIEVE. IT.
The two sides returned to the bargaining table last Friday for the first time since the strike began on May 2. As Bloomberg first reported, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Disney CEO Bob Iger have taken a personal interest in seeking an end to the strike. The WGA wants to
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