NY Legislators Hint Future Of Tax Incentives May Depend On Fair Deal To End Strike, Call On AMPTP To Return To Bargaining Table With WGA
deadline.comMore than 50 Democratic members of the New York state legislature, reminding the AMPTP that companies it represents are the beneficiaries of “hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits” every year, are calling on the studios to return to the bargaining table with the Writers Guild and make a deal to end the month-long strike.
And by “relatedly” tying the tax credits to “good faith” bargaining, as they wrote in one of the letters delivered this morning to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini, the lawmakers’ appear to be implying that they’ll take the outcome of the strike into consideration when weighing future funding of the incentives program.
One letter sent to Lombardini was signed by 34 members of the state Assembly, and another similar missive was signed by 20 state senators.
The guild described the letters as “demanding the Studio association immediately return to the bargaining table with the WGA.” See the letter from State Sen.
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