Hollywood writers strike hits 50 days with no end in sight as WGA seeks deal – National | 24CA News
Fifty days right into a strike for ever and ever, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a brand new contract with studios that features cost ensures and job safety.
Speakers on the Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract on Wednesday emphasised the broad help for his or her trigger proven by different Hollywood unions — together with actors in their very own contract negotiations — and labor at massive.
“We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed,” Adam Conover, a author and a member of the guild’s board and its negotiating committee, informed a crowd on the finish of the march on the La Brea Tar Pits.
“We are going to win because they need us. Writers are the ones who stare at a blank page. We are the ones who invent the characters, tell the stories and write the jokes that their audiences love. They’d have nothing without us.”
Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios in negotiations, haven’t resumed since breaking off hours earlier than the writers’ contract expired on May 1. The strike started a day later, with an increasing number of productions shutting down because it has gone on.
An identical deadline now looms for actors, whose union, SAG-AFTRA, is negotiating with the AMPTP on a contract that expires June 30. Members voted overwhelmingly to authorize guild leaders to name a strike if no deal is reached.
Streaming and its ripple results are on the middle of the dispute. The guild says that whilst collection budgets have elevated, writers’ share of that cash has constantly shrunk.
The AMPTP says writers’ calls for would require they be stored on employees and paid when there isn’t a work for them, and that its contract proposals have been beneficiant.
“We are here for the sake of the profession we love,” author Liz Alper stated at Wednesday’s rally. “The industry we work in, our audiences, our fellow sister unions in Hollywood, and all the workers across America who have been hurt and disenfranchised by Wall Street and big tech.”
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