DGA Chief Lesli Linka Glatter Blasts Studios As “Threat” To Union Jobs, Won’t “Share Fairly” As Streaming Grows; Guild Talks Set To Start Tomorrow

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“Make no mistake: the current position of the studios is a threat to the economic model that for decades has protected tens of thousands of good, union jobs in our industry,” says Directors Guild of America president Lesli Linka Glatter today, one week after the Writers Guild went out on strike. “Like many others, we had hoped the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers would reach a fair and reasonable agreement during the WGA’s negotiating window,” Glatter added in her statement this morning. “But despite six weeks of negotiations, the AMPTP refused to adequately address the writers’ core issues and concerns.” (See the full statement below) The message early Tuesday from Glatter comes one week exactly since the WGA went on the picket lines for the first time in 15 years, and one day before the DGA is set to start their own negotiations with the AMPTP.

In language expanding on what she exclusively told Deadline on May 6, Glatter today says those talks with the AMPTP will be about “securing wage increases that address inflation, and ensuring the strength and sustainability of our pension and health plans.

It means negotiating meaningful increases and thoughtful, forward-thinking structural changes to residuals formulas that allow us to share in the global growth of streaming.

These are goals we share with our sister guilds.” The first term guild boss also says the DGA’s other goals in their upcoming talks are to “protect the role and vision of directors, especially as the shift to streaming upends traditional production models.