WGA Lowers Expectations for Studio Meeting: ‘We Have Been Down This Road Before’
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variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America is continuing to downplay expectations for Friday’s meeting with the studios, and is telling members that it will not be pressured into accepting a bad deal.
Ellen Stutzman, the WGA’s chief negotiator, is scheduled to meet Friday with the head of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
It will be the first formal meeting between the two sides since the writers went on strike on May 1. They are expected to discuss how to resume negotiations.
But the WGA is making it clear that does not mean that a deal is at hand. “We have been down this road before,” the guild’s negotiating committee said in a message to the members on Tuesday afternoon.
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