The strike of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), made up of more than 11,500 writers, began on Tuesday May 2 and still has no end date. This is how it has been extended for the fifth consecutive day.
Among the demands of the workers of large studios, such as Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros. Discovery, Apple and NBC Universal, is a salary increase and fair remuneration of the so-called “residuals”, which are the payments that the members of a team receive when the project in which they participated is transmitted by some means.
In addition, they request that the streaming platforms be more transparent in relation to the times that the productions have been seen by the audiences and that, based on that, they are paid the fair percentage.
The union also asks for a minimum number of staff in the writers’ rooms: between six and 12 writers per program. Likewise, seek the guarantee of at least 10 weeks of continuous work.
In this line, they demand increases in contributions to pension plans and the health fund, as well as the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of scripts.
The protests came after the first negotiations had “totally insufficient” results for the WGA. It should be noted that this is the second strike carried out by the scriptwriters of large production companies, since in 2007 there was one that lasted more than 100 days and had an impact of around US$2,000 million for the industry, in addition to the fact that most programs American television night shows went off the air.
Source: Larepublica
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