November 13, 2007

In response to comments by Dan Wilcox, the chairman, of the WGAW's newly formed Strike Rules Compliance Committee regarding the new rules that require members to "inform the Guild of the name of any writer you have reason to believe is engaged in strike-breaking activity or other scab writing," AMPTP President Nick Counter issued the following statement:

The WGA is using fear and intimidation to control its membership. Asking members to inform on each other and creating a blacklist of those who question the tactics of the WGA leadership is as unacceptable today as it was when the WGA opposed these tactics in the 1950s.