In a message to WGA members, the union’s negotiating team noted that traditional studios have “disparate business models and interests” compared to streaming companies such as Net…
LOS ANGELES — With negotiations stalled, negotiators for the striking Writers Guild of America suggested on Friday, Sept. 8, that they could more easily reach new contracts with individual Hollywood studios if they broke ranks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that is leading labor talks for the industry.
WGA negotiators said they have had conversations with individual executives from traditional studios who have expressed a willingness to negotiate terms and even meet some union demands. But since the AMPTP also represents streamers, which are competitors to studios, and negotiates on behalf of all the companies together, there has been no interest by the alliance to budge on some union proposals.
The union also accused the AMPTP of trying to sow discord among union members by publicly releasing details of its offer. Union officials said the latest AMPTP offer included some salary boosts, “but only for a statistically tiny category of screenwriters, excluding all but the first writers of original screenplays.”
The studios also made a concession by “offering to allow six WGA staff to study limited streaming viewership data for the next three years,” but a viewership-based compensation package would have to wait until the next contract negotiations in three years, according to the union. “In the meantime, no writer can be told by the WGA about how well their project is doing, much less receive a residual based on that data,” according to the WGA negotiators.
According to the AMPTP, the studios’ offer includes the largest pay bump for the WGA in 35 years, with an increase of 5% in the first year, along with bumps of 4% and 3.5% in the following two years.
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