Guild Stuff

A campaign is already being mounted by some members of the WGA to urge the Negotiating Committee and Board of Directors to hurry up and accept something similar to the deal that has been announced by the DGA. This worries me because as I mentioned, I'm not sure we fully know or understand the DGA deal yet.

It also worries me because based on what we do know about it, I don't believe the DGA deal is all that great. If it's better than I think, terrific! But let's make sure it is before we start telling the studios that it's good enough for us. That kinda undermines our negotiating position if we want to better some aspect of it. We also need to address some areas that are of concern to members of the Writers Guild and which didn't come up in the DGA negotiations.

Jonathan Tasini has an interesting analysis of the DGA deal as explained in the summary. Keep in mind that he hasn't seen all the terms of the contract, either.