Warner Bros. Discovery, meantime, issued a warning to investors on Thursday about how the uncertainty surrounding the two strikes would delay movie releases and affect its capacity to create and distribute content.
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Writers Guild of America (WGA) negotiators will meet with representatives of the major studios on Friday for the first time in three months to examine if contract discussions may continue as the Hollywood writers’ strike approaches the 100-day milestone.
The guild’s 11,500 members left on May 2 due to disagreements regarding salary, streaming residuals, and other problems like placing restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence. The hundredth day of the strike falls next Wednesday.
The WGA’s bargaining committee told union members in a statement before the meeting that the studios should stop using the strategies they employed during the 2007–2008 writers’ strike, including reportedly circulating false information about the strike’s true effects.
The WGA wrote in an email, “We challenge the studios and AMPTP to come to the meeting they called for this Friday with a new playbook.” “Be prepared to reach a fair agreement and start repairing the harm your strikes and your corporate behavior have done to the workers in this industry.”
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents Netflix, Walt Disney, and other businesses in negotiations, referred to the WGA rhetoric as “unfortunate.”
The AMPTP stated in a statement that “our only playbook is getting people back to work.” “Tomorrow’s discussion with the WGA is to determine whether we have a willing bargaining partner,” it was added.
The group has previously claimed to have generously increased writer pay and proposed changes to the residuals that authors receive when their films and TV episodes are made available on streaming services.
Florists, caterers, costume suppliers, and other small businesses that serve the entertainment sector are suffering as a result of the labor stoppage. When the Screen Actors Guild members went on strike on July 14 because they were unable to reach a deal with the studios on a new three-year contract, those effects were amplified.
The actors abandoned more than $1 billion in wage increases, pension, and health contributions, and residual increases, according to a statement from the AMPTP.
The simultaneous employment actions are having a significant impact on the entire entertainment sector, putting a halt to much of the production of films and scripted television shows for the next fall television season. The strikes also hurt British Columbia’s creative sector, which has developed into a center for American film and television production.
The Los Angeles Times cited a person familiar with the arrangements as saying that Fox is likely to announce that the television industry’s Emmy Awards will be moved to air in January as a result of the strikes.
Thursday, some writers used social media to express their resolve and support for the negotiating team.
“This strike is over once we get our desired agreement. NOT before,” penned Jorge A. Reyes on the social networking network now known as X. Reyes is the author and creator of the television series “Kevin Hill.”
Source- NDTV
