WGA Won’t Extend Contract Talks Past Monday Night If There’s No Deal, IATSE Chief Predicts; AMPTP “Dragging Their Feet,” Matt Loeb Says
’s current contract expires Monday night at midnight PT and that “he doubts an extension is in the cards.”
That assessment was provided to his members by Chuck Parker, national executive director of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800, who attended a meeting today with Loeb and other union brass.Even so, Loeb reportedly told his team that “there was presently no new, or known, information about the status of the negotiations” between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which began March 20.
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