WGA union argues companies have ‘leveraged the streaming transition to underpay writers’
Hollywood writers have until Monday to authorize their union to call a strike amid contentious contract negotiations with major studios.
“What’s at stake is the viability of television as a career,” said Brittani Nichols, a writer on Abbott Elementary and WGA member. “Right now a lot of people are struggling to string together quality jobs that can allow them to exist in a city likeNichols compared the demands of members to those of other workers facing increasing pressures of economic inequality and rising costs of living.
The AMPTP represents entertainment media corporations that include Amazon, Apple, CBS, Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony and Warner Bros Discovery. “The way that writers’ rooms work now, the way that we’re being paid, the way that we’re dealing with cuts in episode orders, all of that has slowly eroded our ability to make a living doing this,” said Susan Hurwitz Arneson, a writer in the industry for 15 years who has worked on shows such as AMC’s Preacher and the forthcoming John Wick prequel television series The Continental. “For a showrunner, it’s excruciating and impossible.
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