{"id":586675,"date":"2023-08-12T03:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/writers-guild-tells-members-it-will-evaluate-offer-to-resume-talks-with-studios\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T03:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:44:46","slug":"writers-guild-tells-members-it-will-evaluate-offer-to-resume-talks-with-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/writers-guild-tells-members-it-will-evaluate-offer-to-resume-talks-with-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"#Writers Guild Tells Members It Will Evaluate Offer to Resume Talks With Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n After representatives for the Writers Guild of America convened on Friday with major studios and streamers in the first formal return to the negotiating table since the strike was called on May 2, the WGA negotiating committee says the union will \u201cevaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA\u2019s response next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The negotiations were led by AMTPTP president Carol Lombardini and WGA West assistant executive director and chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman. The meeting was announced on Thursday after Lombardini reached out to the guild to resume negotiations, with an expectation that studios would provide responses to the WGA\u2019s latest offer that was presented Aug. 4.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cSometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow descript<\/a>ion of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves,\u201d wrote the negotiating committee. \u201cThat will be our approach, at least for the time being, until there is something of significance to report, or unless management uses the media<\/a> or industry surrogates to try to influence the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n It added, \u201cThe Guild always has the right to communicate with our members and will do so when we think there is news<\/a> you need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n No further information was provided. The AMPTP declined to comment. <\/p>\n

\n The hangup between the studios and guild involves the deal the Directors Guild of America struck earlier this summer. According to the WGA, after an exploratory meeting about resuming talks, the AMPTP doesn\u2019t want to depart too far from that agreement. Stutzman said the studios are open to acceding to increases on writer-specific TV minimums and signaling that they\u2019re willing to make AI concessions but not budging on core concerns relating to minimum size of writers rooms or success-based residuals. The union called these \u201cfundamental issues\u201d that need to be addressed in the new contract to ensure that \u201cno segment of the membership would be left behind.\u201d WGA negotiating committee co-chair Chris Keyser, in an interview this week with The Hollywood Reporter, <\/em>said that the \u201cDGA deal was never going to be a meaningful pattern for us\u201d since success-based residuals wasn\u2019t a sticking point for directors.<\/p>\n

\n A studio source with knowledge of what was expected to transpire at Friday\u2019s meeting said the AMPTP was \u201csupposedly prepared to talk about the three big issues\u201d of AI, streaming residuals and mini-rooms. The WGA, in its briefing to members Aug. 4, said the studios were only prepared to offer the DGA deal for pattern issues and a willingness to engage on AI but not mini-rooms or streaming residuals. \u201cPart of the frustration last time was that they walked in without being willing to address those,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s currently no clear path to the parties striking a deal that would end the work stoppage from scribes, which has now officially eclipsed the duration 2007 walkout. In the wake of discussions last week to discuss the possibility of resuming negotiations \u2014 in which a preview of the issues each side intended to bring back to the table were presented \u2014 the WGA negotiating committee expressed that the AMPTP may be looking to drag out the strike. \u201cYour committee remains willing to engage with the companies and resume negotiations in good faith to make a fair deal for all writers, even with this early confirmation that the AMPTP playbook continues,\u201d wrote the WGA negotiators. \u201cBut rest assured, this committee does not intend to leave anyone behind, or make merely an incremental deal to conclude this strike.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n The union has told its member to temper expectations that a deal is imminent. Keyser, in the interview with THR, <\/em>said of the Aug. 4 meeting that it \u201cdidn\u2019t go perfectly well\u201d as the AMPTP insists on only discussing certain issues and going back to its member companies to gauge proposals. He added that negotiations remain \u201ccordial,\u201d though \u201ccoldly professional.\u201d In the 2007 writers strike, both sides similarly restarted negotiations only for them to fall again fall apart. At that point in the impasse, the WGA had announced plans to individually negotiate with studios.<\/p>\n

\n In a sign that the work stoppage has battered industry relationship, Stutzman at the Aug. 4 meeting also pushed for arbitration of legal conflicts that began during the strike and a reinstatement of striking writers in previous roles.<\/p>\n

\n More than 100 days into the work stoppage, essentially all unionized, scripted production in the U.S. has been shutdown. Combined with SAG-AFTRA members joining the picket line last month, which suspended production on major films and television series<\/a>, the strike has likely cost the California economy billions of dollars as hotels, restaurants and construction companies, among others, that depend on Hollywood are caught in the fallout. The last writers strike dealt a $2 billion (or $2.8 billion in 2023 dollars) blow to the state, according to a study from think tank the Milken Institute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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