WGA’s Phyllis Nagy Predicts Industry-Wide Strike And The End Of Writers’ Primacy In TV If Guild & Agencies Don’t Settle

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WGA West presidential candidate Phyllis Nagy says the guild’s ongoing standoff with the Association of Talent Agents threatens to “permanently destroy the primacy writers have enjoyed in television” and will lead to a strike

and ordered all of its members to fire their agents who refuse to sign its new Agency Code of Conduct, which bans packaging fees and agency affiliations with related production entities. At last count, more than 7,000 writers have done so. The

“Do you think this scenario is unreasonable? Do you think we can’t find ourselves there? If you think it unreasonable, ask yourself this question: Did you ever imagine our Guild would take action against our chosen representatives in the manner that we have and with leadership admitting, 4 months in, that they didn’t expect an action of this length?

“Do the math. In the next eight months, we might expect the divide and conquer strategy to work with how many more agencies? Four? Six? Perhaps all the remaining ATA mid-level agencies will come to separate franchise agreements with the Guild. “As long as we refuse to acknowledge that a divide and conquer strategy employed only against agencies who, by and large, are and always have been ten percenters does not hurt the Big 4, we will remain in stasis, harming 75% of our membership in the process.

 

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The last writers strike lead to Donald trump. Come on greedy, asshole agents! There's plenty of money to go around. Pay the writers their share!!

I think it permanently threatens to destroy the primacy the agents have enjoyed in television. IStandWithWGA WGAWest

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