Warren Leight stepped down from his roles as strike captain and on the compliance committee after litigation was threatened.
have all remained in production through the now nine-week long writers’ strike, making them some of the last to be in production.On May 2 after failing to negotiate with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Writers Guild of America formallyits strike in which more than 10,000 unionized film and television writers have stopped working.
its offer included “generous increases in compensation for writers, as well as improvements in streaming residuals,” but an agreement could not be reached before the expiry of the current contract between the studios and the guild.100. That’s how many days the last WGA strike—which ran from November 2007 to February 2008—lasted. So far, this strike has gone on for 65 days, and there aren’t any indications of an end soon.
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