On the 100th day of the Writers Guild of America strike, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she was personally working to get the writers and studios back to the bargaining table.
Bass told KNX News’ Craig Fiegener she has met with the WGA and is “keeping in constant communication with everyone,” but wouldn’t go into further detail about what she was doing to help resolve the labor dispute.
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“I’ve played a role where I don’t grandstand,” she said. “I think that it’s important to keep a lot of things in conversations confidential.”
Bass said she was “deeply concerned” about the economic impact of the ongoing strikes, which have almost completely shut down film and TV production in Los Angeles.
Despite resolutions from L.A. City Council and the County Board of Supervisors supporting the WGA and urging Hollywood studios to return to the bargaining table, and an offer from Gov. Gavin Newsom to personally mediate the talks, no progress has been made since the writers hit the picket lines in May.
The WGA and AMPTP met last Friday to discuss resuming talks, but walked away without an agreement. Meanwhile, the chief negotiator for actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, which joined the writers on the picket lines on July 14, said he expects their strike could last until February.
Still, Bass believes a resolution is on the horizon – at least within the next few months.
“I don’t believe it will go another hundred days. I do not. It really cannot go another hundred days,” she said. “You think about the entertainment industry and the rippling effect in our economy. There are obviously the people that are members of the WGA, or members of SAG-AFTRA, but there are thousands of ancillary businesses that are all impacted.”
The dual Hollywood strikes are expected to cost the California economy billions.
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