H'wood to labor: The check isn't in the mail

Oh boy. The Hollywood Reporter‘s labor guy, Jesse Hiestand, grabbed an interview with Nick Counter today, and it’s implications for the creative guilds are terrifying to behold.

Who’s Nick Counter, you ask?

Nick is the chief negotiator for the AMPTP – or the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers. You,of course, know them better as “the producers” – the movie studios and TV networks.

In it, he makes some pretty startling remarks about how far the studios want to go when it comes to contract negotiations.

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