DGA Negotiations to Begin on May 10, After WGA Contract Expires

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Directors Guild of America will enter negotiations on a new contract on May 10, the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said Monday.

The DGA previously stated that it would wait until “later this spring” to conduct bargaining on a new contract, saying that the studios were “not yet prepared to address our key issues.” The current contract expires on June 30.

The talks will begin 10 days after the current Writers Guild of America contract expires. It is possible that the WGA could be out on strike at that point.

WGA talks are set to begin on March 20. Both guilds have signaled that they expect an unusually difficult round of bargaining, as streaming takes a larger and larger share of the reuse market.