four-page side-by-side comparison <\/a>of the proposals and counterproposals on Thursday evening. According to that document, management has offered a minimum annual salary of $55,000, while the staff union wants a minimum of $59,737.<\/p>\n\n\tThe staff union has also sought assurances that generative AI will not be used in the workplace. Management has confirmed it has no intention of using AI, and offered that if it does, the staff will be given paid training. However, management worries that the staff\u2019s proposal could impede it from using new technologies to evaluate employees\u2019 work.<\/p>\n
\n\tWGA West staffers played a key part in the 2023 WGA strike, supporting thousands of TV and film writers who spent months picketing the major studios in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe WGA is due to return to the negotiating table with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on March 16, with several weeks of bargaining expected ahead of the May 1 contract expiration.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a message to its members, the WGA West said that it would prefer that the staff not go on strike at such a critical point, but that the AMPTP negotiations work will continue regardless.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201c(T)he executive and managerial staff that work directly with the WGA Negotiating Committee are not part of the PNWSU bargaining unit,\u201d the union said. \u201cOther management staff will carry out core functions of the Guild to lessen the impact of any disruption on the membership.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe staff union includes attorneys, research analysts, residuals representatives, software engineers, and many other job classifications.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe union leadership said it supports the staff\u2019s right to collective action.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAt the same time, we are focused on the challenging negotiation period ahead of us, including securing necessary funding for the health and pension funds that writers struck to establish and maintain \u2014 and that Guild staff also receive their benefits from,\u201d the union said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The staff of the Writers Guild of America West has voted to authorize a strike, just weeks before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,207049,18220,207050],"class_list":["post-438544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-pacific-northwest-staff-union","tag-wga","tag-wga-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}