The Hollywood Writers Guild called a strike

He Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP) have not reached an agreement after several days of negotiations, so the Hollywood scriptwriters will begin a strike that could paralyze the audiovisual industry.

“Although the Negotiating Committee initiated this process with the intention of reaching a fair agreement, the responses from the studies have been totally insufficient given the existential crisis that writers face,” the WGA posted on its Twitter account after the advertisement.

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The union also announced that the pickets began on Tuesday afternoon and made a union appeal to its members. The WGA claims approximately 600 million dollars in salary increases and other benefits, such as the “residuals”, the compensation that a team member receives every time their product is broadcast on television again and that, according to the union, sirens have been seen by the “streaming” platforms, reports EFE.

The last writers’ strike that the industry went through occurred in 2007 and lasted for more than a month, which meant a loss of 2,100 million dollars and the dismissal of 37,000 professionals.

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