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 t…
“There will be an agreement when both sides agree there’s one. You people are despicable,” Young said in an April 17 email to AMPTP 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 begin negotiations on May 11 via teleconference.
Lombardini told Young on April 17 that she would take this up with the management trustees of the Health Plan, but indicated that this could not be a precondition for starting the contract talks, as the Health Plan is a separate entity and is not controlled by the AMPTP, although half of its trustees are representatives from AMPTP companies. Instead, she told Young that the extension of health coverage should be a part of the contract negotiations.
“Your e-mail gratuitously states, ‘You people are despicable,’” Lombardini told Young in an April 20 email. “You give no reason or context for this ad hominem attack. We can only assume that you are upset that the AMPTP did not immediately agree to your separate request that the Producer-WGA Health Plan eligibility provisions be amended to extend eligibility for anyone who does not meet the eligibility requirements.
She also told Young that “Your e-mail is confusing because it states that ‘there will be an agreement when both sides agree there’s one.’ I assume that is in response to my April 17th letter in which I noted that we have agreement on the issues of the date to which the contract is being extended, when proposals will be exchanged and when negotiations will commence.
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