A number of WGA union members tell Rolling Stone the studios’ repeat offer is not surprising and will not discourage them from continuing to strike
“Our priority is to end the strike so that valued members of the creative community can return to what they do best and to end the hardships that so many people and businesses that service the industry are experiencing,” wrote the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers president Carol Lombardini in a press release.
After an invitation, the writers’ union met with the AMPTP Tuesday evening with the hope of bargaining for a fair deal. When offered the same counterproposal from Aug. 11, the writers’ negotiating committee stated the meeting was designed to “get us to cave” and that the offer failed to protect writers from “existential threats.”spoke with union members who say the repeat offer is not surprising and will not discourage them from keeping up the fight.
“We told them that a strike has a price, and that price is an answer to all — and not just some — of the problems they have created in the business,”Jonterri Gadson, a comedy writer and union member since 2019, compared the AMPTP’s negotiating tactics to a training she experienced while she served in the Army Reserves in South Carolina: The drill sergeant would taunt them with an imaginary finish line.
Gadson says that she felt utter excitement when they resumed bargaining on Aug. 11, the 102nd day of the. What felt like the beginning of the end now feels like a manipulative tactic, she contends. “They’re making it out to seem like our leadership, our negotiating committee, isn’t willing to move forward when this was the first counteroffer they’ve done,” Gadson, who is also a Writers Guild Board of Directors candidate, says.
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