By David Robb Labor Editor The standoff continues between the WGA and the AMPTP, whose film and TV contract expires Friday night at midnight.
The chief stumbling block to an extension of the pact has been the guild’s insistence that the trustees of the WGA Health Plan adopt an amendment to the plan extending eligibility to participants who will lose coverage through the end of the year if they fail to meet the earnings threshold and don’t have extended care points to continue their coverage.
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers president Carol Lombardini addressed the issue in an email to WGA West executive director David Young today.Last week, Young called the AMPTP “despicable” for not agreeing to extend the health
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