Thank you for your overwhelming support in our email campaign earlier this week � councilmembers collectively received thousands of emails, and our work had a very real impact.
Now they know that people are engaged and paying attention, and we need to let them know our involvement is serious and ongoing. Although the special motion does not compel the AMPTP to come to the table, it becomes part of a �paper trail� that shows the AMPTP�s behavior, which will matter as we go up the political food chain (Congressional hearings, anyone?)
We're making a difference, and we need your help to keep it going.
Please send two emails � one to City Council President Eric Garcetti, and one (or more) to any of the listed Councilmembers below. Please send it today, before everyone is gone for the holidays.
CUT AND PASTE THIS EMAIL:
Dear Councilmember [choose from Eric Garcetti, Herb Wesson, Bill Rosendahl, Tom Labonge, Richard Alarcon, Janice Hahn, Wendy Greuel, Tony Cardenas, Greg Smith]:
I�m writing to express my gratitude to you for passing the special motion encouraging the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to return to the negotiating table with the Writers' Guild of America. I deeply appreciate your support and your recognition of the impact this strike and the AMPTP's refusal to negotiate is having on the City of Los Angeles and the State of California.
The AMPTP�s refusal to even attend the City Council meeting is very disturbing. It is unacceptable for the AMPTP to refuse to bargain when the strike is costing the economy $20 million a day, at a time when budget shortfalls and the mortgage crisis are already putting a strain on California�s economy.
To give the WGA everything it�s currently asking for would cost Sony $1.68 million a year; Paramount and CBS $4.66 million a year; Disney $6.25 million per year; Warner Brothers, $11.2 million per year; Fox $6.04 million per year; NBC/Universal $7.44 million per year; and MGM $320,000 per year.
The corporations are given tax breaks and huge incentives from California and Los Angeles, all of which are underwritten by taxpayers. The amounts they are being asked to pay yearly are small � Les Moonves guaranteed salary alone is twenty-one times what it would cost for his company, CBS, to settle the strike. For these corporations to put our economy in jeopardy just so they can avoid paying a fair wage is irresponsible and unfair.
All writers want is fair compensation for their work. I hope for your continued support to get the AMPTP to come back to the table, and negotiate a fair and just resolution to this strike.
Thank you,
[insert your name here]
EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR COUNCILMEMBERS:
LA City Council President Eric Garcetti -- councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org
Councilmember Herb Wesson --
councilmember.wesson@lacity.org
Councilmember Bill Rosendahl --
councilmember.rosendahl@lacity.org
Councilmember Tom Labonge --
councilmember.labonge@lacity.org
Councilmember Richard Alarcon --
mailto:--mcouncilmember.alarcon@lacity.org
Councilmember Janice Hahn --
councilmember.hahn@lacity.org
Councilmember Wendy Greuel --
councilmember.greuel@lacity.org
Councilmember Tony Cardenas --
councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org
Councilmember Greig Smith --
councilmember.smith@lacity.org
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