As the WGA strike stretches through its fourth month, the guild confirmed it has engaged in constructive conversations with individual studios within the AMPTP, noting that the “standstill” in negotiations comes from the studios’ end.
“In the 130 days since the WGA strike began, the AMPTP has only offered one proposal to the WGA, on Aug. 11,” the guild wrote Friday afternoon in a message to its members obtained by TheWrap. “Since then, the companies have not moved off that proposal, even though the WGA in turn presented our own counterproposal to the AMPTP on Aug. 15. The current standstill is not a sign of the companies’ power, but of AMPTP paralysis.”