In a display of unwavering solidarity, approximately 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters took to the streets of Los Angeles to march and rally for a new contract with studios that prioritizes payment guarantees and job security. The Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract garnered attention for the widespread support shown by other Hollywood unions and the labor community overall, as reported by the Associated Press. Addressing the crowd at the end of the march, Adam Conover, a writer and member of the guild’s board and negotiating committee, proclaimed, “We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed.”
Conover confidently voiced, “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.” Discussions with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the group representing studios in negotiations, have yet to resume since breaking off just hours before the writers’ contract expired on May 1. The strike began the following day, and as time goes on, more and more productions have come to a halt.
Actors now face a similar deadline, with their union, SAG-AFTRA, negotiating a contract with the AMPTP that will expire on June 30. Guild members have voted overwhelmingly in favor of empowering their leaders to call a strike if no agreement is reached. Streaming and its impact on the industry lie at the heart of the dispute. The guild asserts that while series budgets have increased, writers’ share has consistently decreased. On the other hand, the AMPTP argues that meeting writers’ demands would necessitate keeping them on staff and paying them even when there is no work available, highlighting the generosity of their own contract proposals.
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