Why Hollywood’s labor nightmare won’t end soon: frustration, fear and mistrust

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Why Hollywood’s labor nightmare won’t end soon: frustration, fear and mistrust
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Frustration, fears about the future and a high degree of mistrust continue to shape the script of Hollywood’s strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

Writers and actors represented by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions picket in front of Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles on July 31, 2023.

“It increasingly looks like Hollywood will not be back in business until the beginning of 2024, at the earliest,” research firm LightShed Partners said this week in a note to clients, noting that scenario was “an unthinkable outcome when the WGA went on strike in May.”Frustration, fears about the future and a high degree of mistrust continue to shape the script.

As the twin strikes stretch into September, pressure is building on both sides to find common ground. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has offered to help facilitate the dialogue: “I am more than willing to convene people if and when it is appropriate and both sides have told me that if they felt there was a need that they would absolutely respond.”

Earlier this week, more than 200 union nurses marched alongside WGA and SAG-AFTRA members in 85-degree heat outside Netflix in Hollywood. But Hollywood’s supporting cast, including many caught in a financial crunch, are becoming desperate for a resolution that would spur the industry back to work. “There needs to be give-and-take on both sides or else it’s really going to hurt a lot of people,” Hawkey said. “They’re going to lose their homes; they won’t be able to pay their bills.”In early 2020, as the WGA approached its last round of negotiations, guild leaders were gearing up to press their issues related to streaming. But the WGA recognized that media companies were already reeling from the fallout of COVID-19 shutdowns.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, said in an interview that he wasn’t sure how long the strikes would last, noting the AMPTP hasn’t engaged with the actors’ group since July 12. The studios said they offered the WGA the largest pay bump in 35 years, with minimum wages increasing 5% in the first year of the contract, followed by gains of 4% and 3.5% in subsequent years. The WGA had sought a 6% increase to minimums and residual bases in the first year, followed by 5% increases in the second and third years.Historically, studios employed writers’ rooms, which were staffed with more than a dozen scribes, to quickly churn out enough TV episodes to fill a network season.

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