Simply hours after the studios and streamers made public their newest “comprehensive package” in the direction of a take care of the WGA, the guild has responded – and its appears the AMPTP and prime CEOs could have strategically overplayed their hand.

Actually, talks could have damaged down altogether — once more.

“On Monday of this week, we received an invitation to meet with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, and Carol Lombardini,” the WGA Negotiating Committee stated in an electronic mail simply despatched out to members (see the complete electronic mail beneath). “It was accompanied by a message that it was past time to end this strike and that the companies were finally ready to bargain a deal,” the notice provides. “We accepted that invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work.”

Then the WGA unveil a really completely different POV on what went down with Iger, Sarnados and gang and the August 11 proposal they put forth. The guild’s perspective reads far more that the AMPTP was making an attempt to hype the entire thing and rating PR factors tonight far more than looking for an finish to Hollywood’s ongoing manufacturing shutdown and labor strife.

“Instead, on the 113th day of the strike – and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side – we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was,” the Ellen Stutzman, David Goodman and Chris Keyser-led Negotiating Committee says of the off-site sit-down with CEO and AMPTP chief. “But 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,” they knowledgeable members, brazenly deriding the studios’ public relations transfer of earlier this night.

“This was the companies’ plan from the beginning – not to bargain, but to jam us. It is their only strategy – to bet that we will turn on each other.”

Calling out the AMPTP’s August 11 proposal for its “limitations and loopholes and omissions,” the WGA isn’t thinking about what it appears to say are the baubles of the studios and streamers gives of residuals, AI, writers’ rooms, and transparency in metrics from the streamers. Gives the AMPTP declare  “addresses all of the issues the Guild has identified as its highest priorities.”

Learn the complete WGA electronic mail to its members right here:

DEAR MEMBERS,

After 102 days of being on strike and of AMPTP silence, the businesses started to discount with us on August eleventh, presenting us for the primary time with a counteroffer.

We responded to their counter initially of final week and engaged in additional discussions all through the week.

On Monday of this week, we obtained an invite to fulfill with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, and Carol Lombardini. It was accompanied by a message that it was previous time to finish this strike and that the businesses have been lastly able to discount a deal.

We accepted that invitation and, in good religion, met tonight, in hopes that the businesses have been severe about getting the trade again to work.

As a substitute, on the 113th day of the strike – and whereas SAG-AFTRA is strolling the picket traces by our aspect – we have been met with a lecture about how good their single and solely counteroffer was.

We defined all of the methods wherein their counter’s limitations and loopholes and omissions didn’t sufficiently shield writers from the existential threats that brought on us to strike within the first place. We instructed them {that a} strike has a worth, and that worth is a solution to all – and never just a few – of the issues they’ve created within the enterprise.

However this wasn’t a gathering to make a deal. This was a gathering to get us to cave, which is why, not 20 minutes after we left the assembly, the AMPTP launched its abstract of their proposals.

This was the businesses’ plan from the start – to not discount, however to jam us. It’s their solely technique – to guess that we’ll activate one another.

Tomorrow we’ll ship a extra detailed description of the state of the negotiations. And we’ll see you all out on the picket traces in order that the businesses proceed to see what labor energy appears like.