Writers Guild Of Great Britain, Bectu Welcome Tentative WGA/AMPTP Deal, Urge Swift End To SAG-AFTRA Strike
deadline.comUK industry bodies Bectu and the Writers Guild of Great Britain are saluting the tentative agreement reached on Sunday by the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end the writers strike after nearly five months.
They also called for a speedy resolution to the SAG-AFTRA strike. The UK industry has been hard hit by the labor unrest on the other side of the Atlantic.
Broadcasting union Bectu, which reps more than 30,000 staff, contract and freelance workers in creative industries, welcomed news of the deal whose framework was finalized between the WGA and the AMPTP yesterday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels.
However, Bectu also urged the AMPTP to resolve the ongoing actors strike. In a statement today, Bectu’s chief Philippa Childs said, “It’s now critical that the AMPTP directs all its energies into resolving the dispute with our SAG-AFTRA colleagues.” (Scroll down for the full note.) On behalf of the WGGB, Chair Lisa Holdsworth said, “We send our congratulations to our sister union in the States on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP.” She added, “We look forward to a speedy resolution to both this strike and that of SAG-AFTRA, to whom we continue to send our solidarity.” Here’s the full memo from Holdsworth, followed by that of Bectu’s Childs: WGGB: “We send our congratulations to our sister union in the States on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP. “In the past 146 days we’ve seen an extraordinary show of solidarity from writers and their union siblings on both sides of the Atlantic, and indeed around the world.
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