WGA Says Studios Are Locked In “Mutual Suicide Pact” As Their Negotiating Strategy Has Resulted In “Spectacular Failure”
deadline.comSaying that the studios are shackled together in a “mutual suicide pact,” WGA negotiating committee co-chair Chris Keyser said today in a video message to members that the only way for the companies to end the ongoing strike is to come back to the bargaining table and addressing all of the guild’s demands.
For the guild, he said, “that means addressing the relentless mistreatment of screenwriters, which has only been exacerbated by the move to streaming; the continued denial of full MBA protections to comedy/variety and other Appendix A writers when they work in streaming, and the self-destructive, unsustainable dismantling of the process by which episodic television is made and episodic television writers are paid.
It means addressing the existential threat of AI, and the insufficiency of streaming residual formulas, including the need for transparency, and a success-based component. “All of these will need to be addressed for there to be a deal, because in this strike, it is our power, and not their pattern, that matters.
Not their strategy. Their strategy has failed them.” The video had not been posted on social media as of Wednesday afternoon.
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