Writers Guild Negotiations Conclude Friday Without Deal

A marathon day-long session with a Saturday session in the works.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

The Writers Guild of America met again with chief executives and studio and streamer negotiators on Friday in a marathon bargaining session that failed to produce a deal, though management-side insiders did claim that progress was being made.

Talks went well into the night on the third day that union negotiators met with a group of top company leaders including Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers offices in Sherman Oaks. The meeting began at 11 am PT and concluded by 8:45 pm, according to sources.

There are some comments from anonymous sources about what transpired in yesterday’s meeting, but I won’t excerpt those. Only trust what the WGA says in their messages to the Guild:

The last paragraph references the call to action the night before and the show of strength on pickets line both in L.A. and N.Y.C.

The Hollywood Reporter article concludes with this:

The Writers Guild of America’s 144-day strike is now 10 days away from tying with the 1988 work stoppage as the longest strike in the union’s history. In July, several months into the WGA strike, members of the performers’ union SAG-AFTRA joined their writer counterparts out on the picket lines, the combination of which has essentially halted most Hollywood production.

Even if an agreement is reached tomorrow, it will take at least 10 days for the ratification process, so the strike of 2023 will go into the books as the longest Guild strike in history.

To read the rest of the Hollywood Reporter article, go here.

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