Over 140 days into the WGA’s strike, the latest resumption of talks today between the scribes and studios and steamers are leaving nothing to chance.
31.08.2023 - 22:25 / deadline.com
California Treasurer Fiona Ma has sent letters to the CEOs of seven Hollywood studios urging a return to the bargaining table with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA to end a months-long double strike that’s shut down much of the entertainment industry and is taking a major toll on the California economy.
“I write with deep concern regarding your failure to end the ongoing strike,” Ma said in letters dated Aug. 30 to Disney chief executive Bob Iger, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Read her letter here.
With the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild on strike, “virtually all film and television production in this country has come to a full stop. The impact of these two strikes paralyzes Hollywood and reverberates across the state, affecting countless businesses, thousands of pension fund beneficiaries and millions of Californians,” Ma wrote, noting that entertainment and adjacent industries account for almost 20% of the Los Angeles area income and provide jobs to 700,000 in the state.
“Your failure to come to an agreement is threatening the industry’s ability to ensure that writing, acting and other positions are viewed as sustainable careers in California. Since the earliest days of the motion picture industry, workers across the entire production ecosystem…have supported an economic system vital to the economy of California. That system is now at significant risk,” she told the CEOs. Some 15,000 IATSE members have been out of work for months with production stopped, she said.
The hit from the current work stoppage has well eclipsed that of the 2007-2008 writer strike,
Over 140 days into the WGA’s strike, the latest resumption of talks today between the scribes and studios and steamers are leaving nothing to chance.
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