The AMPTP said it presented an offer with "generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals." The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association that bargains on behalf of studios and production companies, signaled late Monday that negotiations fell short of an agreement before the current contract expired. The Board of Directors of the and the Council of the acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.- Writers Guild of America West May 2, 2023 No such deal could ever be contemplated by this membership." "From their refusal to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, to the creation of a 'day rate' in comedy variety, to their stonewalling on free work for screenwriters and on AI for all writers, they have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession. "The companies' behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing," the WGA said in a statement. More: Hollywood writers are on strike: What that means for your favorite shows. Writers, they said, are facing an "existential crisis." The board of directors for the WGA, which includes both a West and an East branch, voted unanimously to call for a strike, effective at the stroke of midnight. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members. Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, failed to reach a new contract before the writers' current deal expired just after midnight, at 12:01 a.m. The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday. NEW YORK (AP) - Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch an industrywide strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.
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