Hollywood writers are striking over low wages caused by streaming boom
The WGA union has called for strike action after negotiations with studios for better pay and AI regulation fell through on Monday.The 2007 writers' strike lost California an estimated $2.1 billion and was credited with tipping the state into a recession.As of today, thousands of Hollywood television and movie writers are going on strike for the first time in 15 years.to strike on Tuesday after contract negotiations with the major Hollywood studios collapsed.
The union’s demands include increasing minimum wage rates and residuals payments, addressing the “abuses of mini-rooms,” and increased contributions to the union’s health and pension plan. The WGA also wants safeguards to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in scriptwriting, preventing it from being used to generate content or rewrite work already contracted by human writers.
“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing,”.
Tensions over contracts have been rising between the WGA and AMPTP for several years now. The last full-fledged contract negotiations took place in 2017, reaching
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