The strike began after negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed at the start of May.
, saying AMPTP was open to increasing offers on"few writer-specific TV minimums and talk about AI" but wasn’t willing to engage in screenwriters' issues and other proposals.Big Number
$3 billion. That’s how much the failure to reach an agreement has cost California’s economy, according to California State University, Northridge professor Todd Holmes, who was cited by“With SAG by our side, we’re more powerful than ever,” Chris Keyser, co-chair of the WGA’s negotiating committee, said in a statement reported by theThere will be no path forward for writers or for actors who do not say, ‘Enough.’ There is no mercy here; there is only a revolution that comes out of our power.
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