Immortus45 wrote:
> On Nov 7, 4:35 am, Mike McDonald  wrote:
>> Finke is reporting negotiators for the WGA were completely rolled on
>> Sunday by Peter Chernin & Les Moonves.  Apparently the DVD residuals
>> formula was pulled off the table by the WGA in anticipation of a revised
>> offer for downloads from the AMPTP that was to come during last minute
>> negotiations.  This offer was backchannelled from Moonves/Chernin to get
>> WGA negotiators back to the table. The WGA came back to the table, told
>> AMPTP negotiators the DVD residuals issue would be withdrawn and waited
>> for the anticipated counter-offer for EST.  The anticipated
>> counter-offer never came and AMPTP negotiators informed the WGA at 9:00
>> PST that no such offer would be forthcoming and, OBTW, are pickets still
>> down?  The WGA walked out at that point.
> 
> 
> Is it possible for the WGA to put the 8 cents per DVD idea back on the
> table ?

In law, everything's negotiable until the contracts are signed. What are 
they going to do -- argue bad faith? Screw 'em.

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John W. Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have 
always objected to being governed at all."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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