United Hollywood:
The members of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) today put their final stamp of approval on the deal that ended their 14-week strike, giving writers new rights and protections for work distributed on and created for the Internet and other new media platforms.
Dit was het laatste openstaande punt: er was overeenstemming dat de schrijvers aan het werk zouden gaan, maar het nieuwe contract moest nog officieel worden goedgekeurd. En dat is gisteren gebeurd. De WGA staking is nu echt over.
Zoals ik van de week beschreef is de AMPTP in de onderhandelingen met de WGA afgelopen vrijdag weggelopen. Dit terwijl WGA-leden nog steeds staken, banen verloren gaan en verliezen geleden worden.
De WGA heeft besloten hier juridische actie tegen te ondernemen, teneinde AMPTP te dwingen terug te komen om te onderhandelen:
The AMPTP and each of its member companies have a legal obligation to
bargain in good faith with the WGA. Their unilateral walkout from
negotiations last Friday and their on-going refusal to bargain is
illegal under the National Labor Relations Act. Therefore the WGA today
filed Unfair Labor Practice charges against the AMPTP with the National
Labor Relations Board.
De volledige tekst staat in deze aankondiging op United Hollywood.
Update: AMPTP heeft hierop gereageerd met dit bericht:
The WGA's filing of a complaint with the NLRB reminds us of the old
lawyers' adage: When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When
the law is on your side, argue the law. And when you don't have either
the law or the facts on your side, you pound the table. The WGA has now
been reduced to pounding the table, and this baseless, desperate NLRB
complaint is just the latest indication that the WGA's negotiating
strategy has achieved nothing for working writers.
En in die tekst maken ze nog fouten ook. Het bekvechten blijft nog wel even doorgaan, ben ik bang.