L.A. City Council Approves Resolution Supporting WGA Strike

Calls On AMPTP To Return To Bargaining Table

Via Deadline (6/30/2023):

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to approve a resolution in support of the Writers Guild’s ongoing strike and urged the studios “to come to the bargaining table and reach a fair deal with the workers of the WGA.” The strike is now in its 60th day.

“The entertainment industry has long been considered the backbone of the region’s economy, and the WGA represents tens of thousands of Angelenos,” the Council said in a statement. “But the changing business model of the entertainment industry towards streaming services has left many underpaid and overworked. Now, writers are facing the largest assault on compensation and working conditions that they have seen in a generation, with other sectors of the industry like actors and stagehands also struggling to make ends meet.”

Meanwhile, we’ve got this shit going on:

WGA East vp Lisa Takeuchi Cullen on Twitter: “This headline gets an F.The #WGAStrike is FOR Hollywood’s next generation. Without fair pay, without a career path, without actual jobs – there won’t BE a next generation…and everyone knows it.Congrats @BusinessInsider⁩ on your grab for subscriptions from studio execs pic.twitter.com/m5tOzFk86Z / Twitter”

This headline gets an F.The #WGAStrike is FOR Hollywood’s next generation. Without fair pay, without a career path, without actual jobs – there won’t BE a next generation…and everyone knows it.Congrats @BusinessInsider⁩ on your grab for subscriptions from studio execs pic.twitter.com/m5tOzFk86Z

The strike was created by the AMPTP, its member companies, and their longstanding policies. They are the ones refusing to negotiate, quite literally unwilling to sit down to talk about the issues. Moreover, what WGA East VP Lisa Takeuchi Cullen tweeted is absolutely true:

The #WGAStrike is FOR Hollywood’s next generation. Without fair pay, without a career path, without actual jobs — there won’t BE a next generation…and everyone knows it.

As has been discussed here and elsewhere, this strike is different. This is about the existence of the Guild and by extension anything resembling a ‘writing career’ in Hollywood.

For the rest of the Deadline article, go here.

For the latest updates on the strike and news resources, go here.

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