WGA Slams AMPTP's Latest Offer, Says It Doesn't Go Far Enough To Protect Writers
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As summer draws to a close and school starts up again around the country, the incredibly active labor movements of the summer continue, however. The WGA strike is well over 110 days strong now, and as September begins, the SAG-AFTRA strike will be entering its third month.
There were perhaps signs that maybe the WGA strike would be nearing an end on Monday when it became known that their negotiating team met with the AMPTP to restart negotiations in good faith. By Tuesday, however, it became clear that that was not the case. While the two sides were meeting, the AMPTP released the proposal they had put forward on August 11 to the media, trying to preempt the news cycle of what turned out to be an unproductive meeting. The WGA claims it was not 20 minutes after they left the meeting, indicating it was planned.
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According to the WGA, when they met with the heads of the studios, like Bob Iger, and the head of the AMPTP, Carol Lombardini, they were lectured about how the studios’ one-and-only proposal meets the demands of the WGA. The Writer’s Guild responded to the attempts by the AMPTP, saying that this was nothing more than an attempt to jam the WGA and that their proposal was full of loopholes, limitations, and omissions that failed to appropriately protect writers.
The effects of the strikes have left a mark on Hollywood as the fall season nears, with numerous shows and movies halted in production. The studios have had to adjust their fall schedules, which are likely to include a bevy of new reality TV shows, reminiscent of the result of the strike back in 2007. The proposals put forth by the AMPTP in this latest meeting were nothing to meet those needs and instead were new, intended to likely be a compromise.
The guilds, however, stand united that those proposals were not enough to protect their members, and firmly assert that the state of the industry they are being hurt by and fighting against was brought on by the greed and mismanagement of the studios.
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Source(s): Hollywood Reporter
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