…but as you’ve heard, Letterman’s company is seeking its own deal with writers, whereas Leno will — what? — wing it? In any case, the example of Letterman, seeking to come to accord with the writers, gives new creedence to that oldest of industrial-era labor observations that “owning the means of production” — perhaps literally, [...]

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As reported here on the BTL blog a seeming century ago of “strike time” (I think that means about a week or two…), we’d received credible information that if the AMPTP talks collapsed, the WGA was going to start negotiating individually with production companies/corporations, attempting to handle things on a contract-by-contract basis. Comes word [...]

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Well as you know, dear blog reader, the WGA has filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the AMPTP, “for its refusal to bargain in good faith with the WGA. It is a clear violation of federal law for the AMPTP to issue an ultimatum and break off negotiations if we fail [...]

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So the DGA has announced a resumption of talks — we’ll have more about that in the print edition of Union Roundup, which we’ll also post here, shortly — and there are two telling paragraphs in their announcement, the first, from their press release:
But now the situation is dire. The WGA-AMPTP impasse has cost the [...]

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