EXCLUSIVE: There was “fire and brimstone” at tonight’s WGA membership meeting – the last to be held before the start of contract negotiations with the AMPTP on Monday. The meeting…
A guild member who attended provided Deadline with this written account of the meeting:
“Keyser basically ran the show. About 35 minutes of setup. He was passionate, and even though Goodman made a little speech about how we are not going to strike unless we have to, Keyser was fire and brimstone, rallying the troops. Stats were shown that the companies are making more money than ever, but we were making less than ever. He talked about the 7,000 replies they got from their surveys – picked out a few horror stories.
“We won’t have a middle class unless we take care of this now. We are a union with a ‘lion’s heart.’”
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