“It is shameful that Disney, which has grown its business on unionized labor, is resorting to familiar union-busting tactics,” a WGA spokesperson said WritersStrike
-owned division this week to showrunners and executive producers said. “However, we believe certain services, such as participating in the cast process and/or contributing to non-writing production, and post-production work are clear examples of non-WGA required services that should continue to be rendered during this time,” it continued.
And then, perhaps even more so that calling guild contract interpretations “misleading,” there was the kicker: “Further, if production is interrupted by the strike, even if you offer to continue to work, HBO/HBO Max will not be obliged to continue your salary, nor the salary of the cast and crew.
Outside the Disney empire, Paramount-owned CBS Studios sent out its own letter to showrunners this week making it crystal that they are expecting non-writing producing obligations to be fulfilled too. “The so-called ‘A through H’ duties are specifically defined in the Guild contract as writing services and therefore constitute struck work that Guild members are prohibited from doing during a work stoppage,” a spokesperson said this afternoon. “It is shameful that Disney, which has grown its business on unionized labor, is resorting to familiar union-busting tactics.”
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