After trying to call WGA West leadership back to the bargaining table last weekend to seemingly no avail, the guild’s staff union is now taking a different approach. The WGSU delivered a new, “strike-ending” proposal to executive director Ellen Stutzman on Thursday as the staff’s work stoppage nears the end of its sixth week.
“This bargaining cycle has been marked by a long, drawn-out process of management attempting to bargain away from, and actively resisting, both this membership’s priorities and the basic union standards found in most collective bargaining agreements,” the letter addressed to Stutzman reads.
The WGSU accused leadership of having “chosen a war path with its own employees” that has led the strike to collide with the writers’ negotiations with the Hollywood studios. The staff has moved its picket to the SAG-AFTRA building, where the WGA East and West are jointly bargaining with the AMPTP, since
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