Former union presidents Paris Barclay and Thomas Schlamme will oversee the union's team coordinating and communicating with members during negotiations, which this year are situated just weeks from the end of the contract.
“With their experience as former presidents of the DGA and their unrivaled knowledge of our industry, Paris and Tommy will serve as incredible representatives of our Guild to our members as we prepare to win the best possible contract for our members,” Glatter said in a statement. “With their guidance, the DGA Outreach Team is ready to unite our 19,000 members to fight for our future.”
It’s the first time in recent history that the DGA has formed such a group, pointing to the importance of this year’s negotiations for the guild. The outreach team is analogous to the Writers Guild’s “contract captain” system, which assigns volunteer members to communicate and coordinate with small groups of their peers. The Writers Guild has around 450 such captains across both their eastern and western branches in their current negotiations, which affect around 11,000 voting members.
For the first time in many years, the start of DGA negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is scheduled just weeks away from the union’s main film and TV contract’s expiration date on June 30. Typically, in recent years, the union has negotiated long before the end of the contract. This year, leaders have explained to members in internal communications, the union has deemed it most advantageous to engage their members’ employers late in the contract cycle.
“Our approach to bargaining is, and has always been, guided by one simple principle: We will only negotiate when we believe we will win the best possible deal,” negotiations committee chair Jon Avnet, co-chair Karen Gaviola, co-chair Todd Holland and the union’s national executive director Russ Hollander
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