By Dave McNary Film Reporter Hollywood’s major studios have told the Writers Guild of America they want to start negotiations, as planned, on May 11 and exchange proposals on Friday — even though studios did not agree to the WGA’s request to ease eligibility health insurance requirements.
The WGA talks were in limbo last week when the sides sparred over the WGA’s request that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers change eligibility requirements for the WGA health plan.
The exchange prompted WGA West executive director and lead negotiator David Young to call his studio counterparts “despicable” in a letter to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
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