Film and TV screenwriters have walked off the job, slamming “gig economy”-like conditions, in a shutdown that threatens the production of future projects.
— Television and movie writers have declared that they will launch an industry-wide strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.will head to the picket lines
The board of directors for the guild, which includes both a west and an east branch, voted unanimously to call for a strike, effective at the stroke of midnight. Writers, they said, are facing an “existential crisis.” “From their refusal to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, to the creation of a ‘day rate’ in comedy variety, to their stonewalling on free work for screenwriters and on AI for all writers, they have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession. No such deal could ever be contemplated by this membership.
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