The Writers Guild of America began its second day of strike action Wednesday, picketing several sites throughout Los Angeles beginning at 9 a.m. as well as at Netflix headquarters in New York City.…
Yang, 32, is a member of both WAG and SAG-AFTRA, and was marching in the midst of a standoff with studios that he called “existential.” “We have to redefine the way that compensation just works in general,” he said, “and that’s why you have other guilds negotiating with the Alliance and studios as well. Because it’s all been broken for a very long time.”
In preparing for an open-ended work stoppage — his first as a union member — Yang said he researched the last strike and found “echos of that time” carrying into the new dispute. “We’re trying not to get burned again in terms of an emerging technology compromising value or any kind of compensatory structure,” he said.
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