By David Robb Labor Editor UPDATED with WGA responses to Lombardini email: In a troubling sign of the ill will the WGA has for management’s AMPTP as they prepare for upcoming contract talks in the middle of a pandemic, WGA West executive director David Young has accused the AMPTP of being “despicable.” “There will be an agreement when both sides agree there’s one.
You people are despicable,” Young said in an April 17 email to Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers president Carol Lombardini about extending the contract and setting a date for the negotiations to begin.
The guild’s current film and TV contract is still set to expire on May 1, but the two sides have tentatively agreed to extend the contract until June 30 and to
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