WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman’s Parents & Aunt Walk NYC Picket Line In Show Of Support: “We’re Very Proud Of Her”
deadline.comOn the West Coast, the chief negotiator for the striking Writers Guild of America, Ellen Stutzman, is more than a week into an existential battle between the 20,000 union members she represents and the movie and television studios that are, for now, not at the bargaining table.
On Wednesday in New York, her parents, Fred and Anne Stutzman, were marching in support of their daughter and her union cohorts.
The Stutzmans, and an aunt, Mary Stutzman, walked a picket line outside Amazon’s offices in Manhattan in the middle of a throng of chanting, cowbell-banging fellow marchers. RELATED: As You Wish: Mandy Patinkin Picket Sign Invokes ‘Princess Bride’ As He & Bob Odenkirk Support Strike In New York “Somebody has to represent the East Coast in her family,” Mary Stutzman said. “These guys traveled from Albany; I just came from uptown.” Ellen Stutzman grew up in upstate New York and quickly found her future calling as a student at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations in Ithaca, Fred Stutzman said.
After graduation, she moved to Southern California and was hired by a health care workers’ union as a research analyst. She stepped into a similar job with the WGA in 2006 and has been there with the writers union in different roles ever since.
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