He Hollywood Writers Guild start the first strike in 15 years with mobilizations in the main studios in Los Angeles and New York, after the negotiations for salary improvements with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers failed.
The first affected by the measure are the traditional “late night shows”, in which writers play a fundamental role, reported the international press. Some drivers like Stephen Colbert y Jimmy Fallonmembers of the union, publicly supported the writers in their fight.
The protests reached the headquarters of the studios of Amazon, CBS, Disney, Netflix, Fox, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros y Universal, among others. “We screenwriters don’t earn enough. We just want a little more than what has been offered to us,” the screenwriter told AFP. Louis Joneson behalf of his colleagues, from the protest in front of the Netflix studios.
The writers aspired to sign a package of salary increases valued at almost 600 million dollars, in addition to obtaining other improvements in the minimum wage, better health insurance, the creation of a pension plan and the revision of the individual payments they receive. for productions broadcast on streaming platforms.
In the last conflict of 2017, which also kept Hollywood in suspense, they reached an agreement before the deadline expired, with the reminder that ten years earlier the scriptwriters ceased their activities in protest for three months between 2007 and 2008. This time, the Alliance of Film and Television Producers announced in a statement that the negotiations had “concluded without agreement”.
