WGA West presidential candidate William Schmidt is calling on the guild to resume negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents to end their standoff, which is now in its 111th day. “We must r…
— broke ranks with the ATA last week and signed the guild’s modified franchise agreement.
“In the 1985 MBA negotiations, the AMPTP demanded we accept their formula. The Guild was riven with conflict. Many were willing to strike to preserve the better reuse monies, but others were not. I was at a membership meeting where fistfights broke out between the two sides. “When I started out,” he wrote, “consolidation of media companies had just begun; there wasn’t even a Fox network. Now we have four or five huge media conglomerates who can weather a WGA strike easier than in the past. The disunity and discord in the Guild today resembles the years 1985-1988. If we don’t re-unite, we could find ourselves facing rollbacks in the AMPTP negotiations.”
• We made progress in the last MBA negotiations with maternity/paternity leave and other protections for pregnant writers or those who have just given birth, yet we must go farther. Some companies pay writers who go on leave, some don’t. All should.
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