By David Robb Labor Editor On the eve of bargaining with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract, WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson said today that his members have “mostly kept working” despite the industry’s COVID-19 shutdown.
Those contract talks, which will start next week, will be conducted at the same time – though separately – as the AMPTP’s ongoing contract negotiations with SAG-AFTRA, which began on April 27.
Both unions’ contract are set to expire on June 30. “When the pandemic struck, we set about learning as much as possible about its impact on our members,” Peterson told his members today. “We talked with shops and activists and rank and file members.
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