LOS ANGELES (KNX) – Writers Guild of America members continued to picket outside studios as day two of the writers’ strike commenced on Wednesday.
From Warner Brothers Studios and Disney Studios in Burbank to Netflix and Paramount in Hollywood, writers, showrunners, and others are taking to the streets to continue their fight for jobs and wages.
“What we're fighting for is to get companies to pay us a living wage and to hire us for jobs,” a picketer outside Paramount Pictures studio lot said. “Neither of those two things are they doing very reliably.”
The unions are fighting for better, job security, and more significant residuals from streamers
Lisa Muse Bryant, an executive producer on the show “Primo”, said she’s worked on different types of writers’ rooms and says writers are being taken advantage of.
“I’ve been in 23 long-season writers’ rooms and I've been in 10-week mini rooms and you know what the difference is? There is no difference,” she told KNX News. “It's just an excuse to pay us less to work us more hours.”
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, representing the studios, rejected multiple demands, including ones requiring them to keep a certain number of writers on staff for a certain period. The group has not released another statement since Monday evening.
Negotiations between the two have not since continued.
While it’s unclear how long this strike will last, the last writers’ strike in 2007 went on for 100 days.
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