According to CNN, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers shares with the public the latest package that is being proposed to the Writers Guild of America negotiations related to the negotiations of the ongoing strike. The new package includes an increase of current wages which studios have stated is the largest increase in the last 35 years. As part of the package, any written work material by AI will not be considered literary material, and viewership data will be shared only between them and the WGA.
Carol Lombardini, president of the AMPTP said in a statement, “Our priority is to end the strike so that valued members of the creative community can return to what they do best and to end the hardships that so many people and businesses that service the industry are experiencing. We have come to the table with an offer that meets the priority concerns the writers have expressed. We are deeply committed to ending the strike and are hopeful that the WGA will work toward the same resolution.”
AMPTP included a four-page document that was given to the WGA as part of the negotiations. The WGA in response stated that the latest offer was not in good faith saying, “This wasn’t a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave, which is why, not 20 minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals.”
According to CNN, earlier in the month both the WGA and AMPTP agreed to resume the negotiations. This was the first time since the strike initially started. The strike that began back in May has now gone longer than the 2007-08 strike but has yet to run the course of the longest writers’ strike of 1899 which ran for 154 days.