Wednesday marks 100 days since the Hollywood writers have been on the picket lines.
Unlike the 2007-2008 writers’ strike, which came to an end on the 100th day, a return to negotiating table doesn’t appear to be likely any time soon after an Aug. 4 meeting between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers went stagnant.
Chris Keyser, the co-chair of the WGA’s negotiating committee, said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the 100-day mark is “a day of infamy for the AMPTP.”
“It’s shameful. Either they cannot get it together or they intentionally are not getting it together,” he said. “Or the AMPTP is doing precisely what they claimed they wouldn’t do, which was to try to create a situation in which people who are hungry and desperate no longer have the will to fight for their own survival. That’s not going to work.”
The biggest issues between the guild and AMPTP continue to be streaming residuals, minimum staffing in writers’ rooms, and the use of artificial intelligence technology.
The writers were joined on the picket lines by SAG-AFTRA on July 14.
One SAG-AFTRA member told KNX News’ Jon Baird she knew the strike would hit hard financially, which is nothing new.
“We live gig to gig, some of us actors,” she said. “So basically what happens is I start dipping into my credit cards and my savings account to survive until the next gig comes.”
She added it is time for the studios to “get back to the table and cut a deal with us.”
The AMPTP maintained that its goal is to get people back to work.
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