TV and film writers with the Writers Guild of America are on strike after a midnight deadline came without a deal with executives of the major producers and streaming giants in Hollywood.
that the need for a strike became increasingly evident over recent days of bargaining.
“It was really very clear that the companies were unwilling to move on many of the very important issues we raised,” Goodman said. “They kept wanting us to give up things that we just wanted to talk about and so as a result, we realized that they didn’t want to make a deal.” The union said the exploitation they suffer as writers is clear to see, but that it will not be tolerated any longer by an industry that disregards the key role they play in creating the shows and movies that audiences pay to enjoy.
“Here is what all writers know: the companies have broken this business,” the WGA committee said. “They have taken so much from the very people, the writers, who have made them wealthy. But what they cannot take from us is each other, our solidarity, our mutual commitment to save ourselves and this profession that we love.”
“We had hoped to do this through reasonable conversation,” the statement continued. “Now we will do it through struggle. For the sake of our present and our future, we have been given no other choice.”is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own.
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