The WGA has issued its Sample of Calls for forward of its negotiations with the AMPTP.
It comes after the union has requested that members vote on these earlier than talks start on March 20 and its contract expires on Might 1.
The calls for have been cut up into three major classes: Compensation and Residuals, Pension Plan and Well being Fund and Skilled Requirements and Safety within the Employment of Writers.
Many of the subjects are anticipated together with larger minimal charges, the difficulty of mini-rooms, elevated residuals and enhance contributions to its pension fund.
Nevertheless, a few of them are barely sudden to the broader trade together with addressing the difficulty of AI, which has come to the fore with the rise of providers akin to ChatGPT, in addition to making use of minimums for late-night exhibits throughout streaming providers.
Writers should vote by March 7.
Compensation and Residuals
– Elevated minimal compensation considerably to deal with the devaluation of writing in all areas of tv, new media and options
– Standardized compensation and residual phrases for options whether or not launched theatrically or on streaming
– Deal with the abuses of mini-rooms
– Guarantee applicable tv sequence writing compensation all through whole strategy of pre manufacturing, manufacturing and publish manufacturing
– Broaden span protections to cowl all tv writers
– Apply MBA minimums to comedy selection applications made for brand new media
– Elevated residuals for underneath compensated reuse markets
– Limit uncompensated use of excerpts
Pension Plan and Well being Fund
– Enhance contributions to pension plan and well being fund
Skilled Requirements and Safety within the Employment of Writers
– For characteristic contracts wherein compensation falls beneath a specified threshold, require weekly cost of compensation and a minimal of two steps
– Strengthen regulation of choices and exclusivity in tv author employment contracts
– Regulate use of fabric produced utilizing synthetic intelligence or comparable applied sciences
– Enact measures to fight discrimination and harassment and to advertise pay fairness
– Revise and develop all arbitrator lists
