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We'll take the DGA Deal
"My crystal ball is no better than yours, but I expect the AMPTP to make a deal with the DGA and then announce that the WGA could have had the same deal three months ago if only our leaders had been professionals or were better negotiators. Or if they had enough chairs. They'll make a big show of offering the same deal to us, and we'll vote to take it. Quietly, we'll drop every other issue they object to. And in the back of our minds we'll wonder if the whole strike could have been avoided." -- Screenwriter Michael Seitzman (North Country, The Sparrow, The Chancellor Manuscript) in a 1.8. Huffington Post-ing.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 9, 2008 at 5:13 AM
comment #1
Nightswimmer
says ...
Perhaps, but first the AMPTP has to start negotiations with the DGA. They've hubbubbed enough to know that they're still so far apart on the basic issues that the talks, which were to have started two days ago, have not.
No issue can be "quietly" dropped at this point, and I wouldn't be so sure that the WGA will vote to accept a shitty deal.
Posted by Nightswimmer
at January 9, 2008 3:08 PM
comment #2
Dravot
says ...
Somehow I doubt the AMPTP will open their negotiations with dozens of rollbacks, many of them petty and insulting, then respond to a counteroffer by throwing a hissy fit and leaving the table.
Posted by Dravot
at January 9, 2008 6:00 PM
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