The WGA claims about $600 million in salary increases and other benefits, such as “waste streams,” the compensation a team member receives each time their product is repeated on television.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have not reached an agreement after several days of negotiations. Hollywood screenwriters starts from this tuesday a strike That can paralyze the industry.
“While our negotiating committee has begun this process with the intention of reaching a fair deal, the responses from the surveys have been wholly inadequate given the existential crisis writers face,” the WGA posted on its Twitter account following the ad.
The union also announced that the pickets begins Tuesday afternoon and has issued a call to unite its members.
The WGA claims about $600 million wage increases and other benefits, such as “leftovers,” the compensation a team member receives each time their product is televised again, which the union says have been reduced by “streaming” platforms.
The last writers’ strike the industry went through took place in 2007 and it lasted more than a month, resulting in a $2.1 billion loss and the layoff of 37,000 professionals.
Source: EITB
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