There’s a main change within the WGA negotiating group forward of the March 20 begin of talks with studios on a brand new contract. WGAW Government Director David Younger, who has spearheaded a number of bargaining campaigns with AMPTP on behalf of the writers, is happening a medical go away of absence beginning immediately, the guild’s management advised members in an e-mail this afternoon.
“WGAW Assistant Government Director Ellen Stutzman will function chief negotiator for the 2023 MBA negotiations,” the letter mentioned. “Ellen has earned the boldness and full assist of the WGAW Board, WGAE Council, and the WGA Negotiating Committee. She is going to lead a workers with a long time of expertise negotiating and imposing the MBA, and organizing and mobilizing members to assist the Guilds’ contract campaigns.”
No further details about Younger situation or anticipated return day has been revealed however the guild’s officers wished him a full restoration. It’s unclear whether or not he can be concerned within the negotiations with AMPTP, whose begin date stays set for March 20.
Right here is the complete letter to membership, which spotlight’s Stutzman’s in depth background:
We wished to let you already know that WGAW Government Director David Younger started a medical go away of absence immediately.
WGAW Assistant Government Director Ellen Stutzman will subsequently function chief negotiator for the 2023 MBA negotiations. Ellen has been with the WGAW for 17 years, rising first from researcher to Analysis & Public Coverage Director. She’s been in her present place as Assistant Government Director since 2018, with oversight over the Company, Contracts, Authorized, and Analysis & Public Coverage departments. As a part of the chief workers, Ellen has performed a key strategic position up to now three MBA negotiations and the company franchise settlement negotiations. She is a graduate of Cornell College’s College of Industrial and Labor Relations and has her MBA from UCLA.
Ellen has earned the boldness and full assist of the WGAW Board, WGAE Council, and the WGA Negotiating Committee. She is going to lead a workers with a long time of expertise negotiating and imposing the MBA, and organizing and mobilizing members to assist the Guilds’ contract campaigns.
We all know we communicate for the complete WGAW and WGAE memberships in wishing David a full restoration.
Negotiations with the AMPTP will start on March twentieth. You can be listening to extra from us earlier than then.
IN SOLIDARITY,
Meredith Stiehm, Michele Mulroney, and Betsy Thomas, WGAW Officers
Michael Winship, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, and Christopher Kyle, WGAE Officers
David A. Goodman and Chris Keyser, WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chairs
