WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser On The Breakdown Of Negotiations With “Divided” AMPTP
deadline.comOutside the Fox lot in Century City this afternoon, WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser appeared amongst over 150 members who were on site to picket following the breakdown of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion and Television Producers and the expiration of their contract.
The WGA Award nom, known for his work on series like The Society and Party of Five, is heading up negotiations this year alongside his fellow former guild president David Goodman, having held the post himself between 2011 and 2015.
In conversation with Deadline this afternoon, he spoke to the atmosphere in the room with AMPTP members last night, the stakes in these negotiations and how the current strike compares with that which took place all the way back in 2008, his concerns about studios’ unwillingness to broach the subject of AI, how long he sees the labor stoppage lasting, how it’s affected work on his own series Julia for HBO Max, and more. DEADLINE: What led negotiations to fizzle out early last night, around 8 p.m.
PT? What were the AMPTP’s biggest sticking points? CHRIS KEYSER: The companies continued to refuse to move on, or even discuss a long list of our core proposals.
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