The DGA and SAG-AFTRA’s contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) both expire June 30, which has had some industry players worried that an additional strike from one or both. She was one of the many industry labor figures who joined the writers at the auditorium Wednesday: In addition to the Teamsters, The Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA also sent executives to the gathering, while representatives from the Laborers’ International Union of North America, Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association and IATSE also made an appearance.
“The only way we’re gonna beat these mother f-kers is if we do it together,” Lindsay Dougherty, the head of Teamsters Local 399, told attendees. event, which followed a counterpart meeting at New York’s Cooper Union earlier in the day, opened with a standing ovation for Ellen Stutzman, the WGA’s lead negotiator who stepped into the role after western branch of the union’s executive director, David Young, went on medical leave in late February.
It’s a million percent different than last time around.” “They are all getting variously screwed by these companies and they know the only way to win is to stick together. “I’ve been around 25 years and have never seen all the unions this united or on the same page,” one showrunner who was in attendance told THR after hearing leaders from each of the guilds speak.
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