Baseball season may have been delayed this year by the coronavirus, but Hollywood’s major studios are about to play a doubleheader. SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America are simultaneously lau…
on May 1 and begin negotiations on May 11. That timetable by definition puts a stopwatch on SAG-AFTRA talks, although sources close to the AMPTP insist the organization has the bandwidth to conduct parallel talks with both unions if need be.
Moreover, SAG-AFTRA talks are coming at a time when the leaders of AMPTP member companies are consumed with planning for the gradual reopening of Hollywood, from office towers to location shoots. Some are hoping that process will be addressed in an industrywide way through the forum of the AMPTP, which is composed of Hollywood’s largest employers. A spokesman for the AMPTP declined to comment.
But with the economy reeling and Hollywood on the ropes, there’s little doubt that the AMPTP firmly has the upper hand. The conventional wisdom emerging in the creative community is that with more than 26 million Americans out of work, the threat of a strike, while already slim for SAG-AFTRA, is effectively disabled for the WGA as well. “There is no way” the WGA would generate broad-based support for a work stoppage in this moment, says a veteran showrunner and active guild member.
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