WGA Rips AMPTP Over “Calculated Disinformation”, Urges New Playbook Before Tomorrow’s Meeting

deadline.com:

If you thought the Writers Guild of America was going to be playing nice heading into tomorrow’s meeting between WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman and AMPTP boss Carol Lombardini – you really might want to think again.

In a flag planting statement put out this afternoon, the WGA Negotiating Committee slammed the studios and streamers for playing games, spreading disinformation and using the same old “tired playbook” in labor relations.

The email sent out to members, many of whom have been on picket lines since May 2, bluntly said: “We won’t prejudge what’s to come.

But playbooks die hard.” Taking a swing or two at reporting by Deadline (though they don’t mention us by name) of the harsh endgame the studios envision and back channel communications before Lombardini finally called Stutzman on August 1 after over 90 days of top level silence, the committee added: So far, the companies have wasted months on their same failed strategy.