WGA West presidential candidate William Schmidt has called on the guild’s leadership to disavow the attacks he said he’s experienced on social media since announcing his candidacy and reveali…
On April 13, the guild ordered all of its members to fire their agents who refuse to sign its Code of Conduct, but Schmidt maintains such an order violates the guild’s constitution. Schmidt didn’t fire his ICM Partners agent, but has told her not to try to get jobs for him or negotiate any new contracts – in effect, no longer representing him for any guild-covered work.
“The WGA Constitution, in Article III, Section 2, lists the powers of the board of directors, from the employment and discharging of executive directors to the establishment and maintenance of the guild’s public relations and more,” he told Deadline. “Nowhere is there even a suggestion that the board has the power to impel membership to write letters firing their agents. Such a thing has never been done and is a violation not only of the constitution but the spirit of the guild, itself.
“I have not entered into any new agreement with my agent, including ICM,” he said. “I told my agent that she must not work in my behalf, in any way, during the contract negotiations between the guild and the ATA. I am not in violation of Working Rule 23. But I refused then, and refuse now, to be railroaded into a blatantly unconstitutional action that is harmful to my relationship with my agent, one which has also split the guild for no good purpose.
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