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The AMPTP known as the Writers Guild out Friday evening after the guild launched a observation pronouncing that a number of of the legacy firms have privately expressed “each the need and willingness to barter an settlement that adequately addresses writers’ problems.”
In reaction, the Affiliation of Movement Image and Tv Manufacturers mentioned this night that “The AMPTP member firms are aligned and are negotiating in combination to succeed in a answer. Any recommendation on the contrary is fake.”
The AMPTP went on to mention that “Each and every member corporate of the AMPTP desires an even deal for writers and actors and an finish to the moves, which might be affecting no longer handiest our author and actor colleagues, but additionally hundreds of others around the trade.
“This is why the AMPTP has again and again put ahead provides that cope with primary priorities of the WGA, together with a final spherical of provides on August seventeenth and 18th. On many problems, AI amongst them, we’re shut. Our AI proposal has supplied transparent promises that using AI won’t impact writers’ pay, credit score or separated rights. Now we have requested the WGA to spot any ultimate holes within the AI be offering and it has no longer replied.
“At the vital matter of necessary staffing, the WGA has remained entrenched in its authentic place, excluding for a unmarried modest alternate in its place on staffing in construction rooms.
“The WGA has accomplished considerable good points for its contributors all through this negotiation procedure and holds the ability to transport this negotiation ahead via responding to the AMPTP’s most up-to-date provides on key problems. The AMPTP, together with all its member firms, stays keen to succeed in answer.”
The AMPTP additionally supplied a timeline of proposals that thus far have failed to finish the writers strike, which started on Might 2.
TIMELINE OF PROPOSALS
April 14, 2023: AMPTP introduced WGA with its Complete Bundle Proposal, a
31-page report.
April 26, 2023: AMPTP introduced WGA with its Revised Complete Bundle
Proposal, a 40-page report.
April 30, 2023: AMPTP introduced WGA with its 2d Revised Complete Bundle
Proposal, a 41-page report that addressed all pieces in negotiations.
August 11, 2023: AMPTP introduced WGA with its 3rd Revised Complete Bundle
Proposal, a 69-page report that addressed all pieces in negotiations.
August 15, 2023: WGA replied with a 4-page report with restricted strikes in a
handful of spaces.
August 16, 2023: WGA supplied main points of its revised written proposal on A.I.
August 17, 2023: AMPTP supplied WGA a revised AI counterproposal, which fascinated with
the important thing considerations that the WGA had expressed all through dialogue the day prior to this.
August 18, 2023: AMPTP presented additional compromises to WGA’s August fifteenth
reaction. WGA indicated it will reply the next week. AMPTP has no longer heard from the
Guild since that point.
