The Trump Administration could play a major role in 2020 in two ongoing Hollywood labor disputes. Last month, President Donald Trump’s Labor Department said it may sue to force a rerun of SAG-AFTRA…
The administration’s involvement isn’t welcomed by the leaders of either union, which face contentious contract negotiations next year. The WGA’s film and TV contract expires May 1, and SAG-AFTRA’s on June 30.
In a November 15 letter to Carteris, DOL District Director Edgar Oquendo wrote: “This letter confirms our agreement extending the time within which the Secretary of Labor may file suit under Title IV of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.” The Justice Department, meanwhile, is eyeing the WGA’s ongoing legal battle with three of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies, and recently weighed in on that dispute. The next hearing in the case, on the agencies’ motion to dismiss the WGA’s counterclaims, is set for January 17.
In February – two months before it filed suit to end packaging fees and agency affiliations with corporately related production entities – Goodman waxed nostalgic about a decades-old DOJ probe of the agency business, reminding his members that “The last time a powerful talent agency decided it wanted to become a producer was MCA in the 1960s. The Justice Department stepped in and forced Universal to spin off its agency business, because it was an antitrust violation.
The guild has made no secret of what it thinks about Trump, regularly lashing at him for his Muslim ban, his assault on transgender rights, and for his widely criticized remarks about the “very fine people” on both sides of the deadly white supremacists’ melee in Charlottesville, VA. After that, the WGA West said that Trump “disgraces our nation,” with then-guild president Howard Rodman calling on him to resign.
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