“They recognized they must give more than usual to settle this negotiation. Another said they needed a deal badly,” the WGA negotiating committee said in the letter
The letter claimed that one executive told the WGA that they had “reviewed our proposals,” saying that the changes would “not affect their company’s bottom line.”
“They recognized they must give more than usual to settle this negotiation. Another said they needed a deal badly,” the letter continued. “Those same executives — and others — have said they are willing to negotiate on proposals that the AMPTP has presented to the public as deal breakers. On every single issue we are asking for we have had at least one legacy studio executive tell us they could accommodate us.
The letter continued by stating that the companies will continue to “sow doubt” in the meantime, and encouraged members to “keep your guard up.” “The companies know the truth: they must negotiate if they want to end the strike. They may not like it —they may try to obscure it — but they know it,” the statement read. “While they wrestle with that fact and with each other, they will continue attempting to get writers to settle for less than what we need and deserve, and encourage us to negotiate with ourselves. But we are not going to do that.
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