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According to a joint statement from the Writers Guilds of America West and East and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, issued today, negotiations on on a new Theatrical/TV contract begin on Thursday, March 3rd. The Guilds and the AMPTP claim they will not be commenting further at this time. President John Wells, Executive Director David Young, Negotiating Committee Co-Chairs John Bowman and Billy Ray, and others will go up against the AMPTP’s Carol Lombardini. I’ll have an analysis before then.
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Gonna have to strike again. Hate to say it but it’s true. But that’s fine, we will do whatever it is we have to protect our rights. The truth is without scripts there would be no movies. We might get treated like dirt but we are a million times more important to the process than these worthless executives. That is why we have to keep fighting these guys. Otherwise they will keep squeezing us.
“protect your rights”?? what are you a coal miner? “Squeezing” you? Out of what, donuts?
Let the games begin. (Time limited. No over-time.)
@wgawriter as much as i’d want you guys to get a better new media deal- this ship has sailed 3 years ago when you didn’t wait for The others to strike with you. All The other unions have signed their basic contract already. You have no real leverage.
It’s a real pity because that contract needs better new média clauses. But until The directors stop to undermine everyone else and you get a real union representing actors and not those super riche actors likes Amy brenneman who has no memory how 95% of actors survive, this is a lost cause.
Why does my sphincter clench when I think about this new round of negotiations? Didn’t the last one just finish out a couple days ago?
The court ruling blocking NFL owners from tapping the 4 Billion war chest to fund their planned 2-year lockout, showing that they were negotiating in bad faith with the players union, is worth taking note of. Owners/executives have been working against labor seemingly everywhere. WGA must fight and lead the way. GAS and AFART have been co-opted.
Screw the WGA. They shut the city down and claimed their negotiations represented “the most important labor movement in history” (the idiot Patrick Verrone) only to end up with a marginal victory.
Now that real labor is standing up for their rights in Wisconsin, in Ohio and all over the Country… Where is the WGA????
That’s right, they are sitting in Hancock Park bitching about how the studios don’t pay them enough for their 20 hour work weeks.
Screw these pretentious asshats. The WGA is full of hypocrites.
@LiveBetter:
The WGAW issued the following statement yesterday in support of the fight for workplace democracy by Wisconsin’s state employees:
“The Writers Guild of America, West condemns in the strongest possible terms Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attack on the public employees of his state. His bid to deprive them of their collective bargaining rights is not only an assault on their unions, it is an attempt to deprive them of a meaningful voice in the workplace and in our democracy. Walker’s plan to strangle that voice is as cynical as it is immoral. Instead of improving the lives of Wisconsin’s working people, he seeks to rob them of their dignity and significantly reduce the quality of life for tens of thousands of workers and their families.”
OH they issued a STATEMENT?!?!!?!? How progressive of them.
Thank you guys SOOOO MUCH for taking the time out of your busy day eating at the Ivy and bitching at your assistants for ordering the wrong pool heater to issue a STATEMENT. Remember when you went on strike and the other unions STOPPED WORKING and actually picketed with you???
Get off your royal asses and get some BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
SAG and AFTRA were in Madison over the weekend representing. Where were you????
“This is the most important labor movement of the 21st century”. Patrick Verrone regarding the COMEDY TV WRITERS “strike”. You should all be embarrassed.