{"id":2031334,"date":"2023-09-14T01:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/striking-actors-writers-swarm-hollywood-in-massive-solidarity-march\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T01:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:59:46","slug":"striking-actors-writers-swarm-hollywood-in-massive-solidarity-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/striking-actors-writers-swarm-hollywood-in-massive-solidarity-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood flooded by united actors and writers in solidarity march."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstriking-actors-writers-swarm-hollywood-in-massive-solidarity-march%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Thousands of \u2063Striking Writers \u200dand Actors \u2062March\u2064 Through Hollywood<\/h2>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Thousands of striking writers and actors staged a solidarity march through Hollywood on Sept. 13, culminating in a boisterous rally outside Paramount studios as the dual labor stoppages continue to halt movie and TV production.<\/p>\n<p>The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has \u2064been on \u2064strike since early \u200cMay. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) actors&#8217; union joined the writers on the picket lines in July. There have been \u2064some negotiations between the\u2063 WGA and Hollywood studios in recent weeks, but still\u200b no \u2063indication a \u2063resolution is at\u2063 hand. There \u200bhas \u200cnot been any word of \u200ctalks between the studios and SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, thousands of striking writers and actors gathered outside Netflix headquarters in Hollywood, then marched to Paramount studios on Melrose Avenue. Once there, a massive rally was held, featuring speeches and music performances\u2014and forcing closures of streets surrounding the studio.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/hollywood-actors-union-to-vote-on-strike-against-video-game-makers-5486830\">Hollywood Actors&#8217; Union to Vote on Strike Against Video Game Makers<\/a> (9\/5\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/hollywood-strike-intensifies-after-another-failed-negotiation-between-producers-and-writers-5479391\">Hollywood Strike Intensifies After \u2063Another\u2064 Failed Negotiation Between\u2063 Producers and Writers<\/a> (8\/23\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA \u200bbilled \u2063the event as a solidarity march to send a message to studios that actors \u2062and writers are standing firm in their push for \u200cfair contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your strength and\u200b your solidarity and your resolve is going to get us to the other side of this, and history is in \u200bthe\u200c making right now,&#8221; \u200bSAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher\u200b told the crowd. &#8220;I know that this strike \u200cis not\u2064 easy, \u200cin fact, it&#8217;s hard. It&#8217;s very hard. And with the passing of time \u2064its going to even get \u200charder,\u200b but\u200d the reason why we \u2062had\u2064 the largest strike authorization in \u2063our union history is because \u2063we \u200cstand at an inflection point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She concluded \u2063by saying, &#8220;Hang in and do not give up, because this is the moment that&#8217;s going to change the\u200d future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"aligncenter\"><figcaption>Armando Anto performs during Stand Up \u2062Comedy at the picket lines outside of Netflix Studios in Los Angeles on Aug.\u200d 30, 2023. (Monica Schipper\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last\u2064 week, WGA negotiators sent a message \u200bto union members suggesting they could\u200b more easily reach new \u2064contracts with individual Hollywood studios if they \u200dbroke ranks with the Alliance \u200dof Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which\u200d leads labor talks for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to WGA members, the\u200c union&#8217;s\u2062 negotiating team noted that traditional studios have\u2062 &#8220;disparate business models\u200d and interests&#8221; compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-calls-biden-ftc-nominee-not-aggressive-enough-on-big-tech\/\" title=\"Blackburn Calls Biden FTC Nominee \u2018Not Aggressive Enough\u2019 on Big Tech\">streaming companies<\/a> such as Netflix. \u200dBut since studios and streamers are both relying on the AMPTP to\u2063 lead the negotiations, it\u2062 &#8220;allows hard liners to dictate the course of action for all\u200b the companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AMPTP \u2062purports to represent all of these disparate corporate interests, but in practice administers a system that favors inflexibility\u2063 over compromise, and sacrifices the interests of individual companies in reaching a \u2062deal. That\u200c regression to the hardest line has produced the first simultaneous strikes since 1960,&#8221; \u200cnegotiators wrote, referring to the companion\u2062 strike by SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n<p>WGA negotiators said they have had conversations with \u200dindividual executives from traditional studios who \u200chave expressed a willingness to \u2063negotiate terms and even\u2064 meet some union\u2064 demands. But since the AMPTP also represents streamers, which are competitors to studios, and negotiates on behalf of all the companies \u2062together, \u200dthere has been no interest by the alliance to budge on some union proposals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, while the intransigence of the AMPTP structure\u200c is\u2064 impeding progress, these behind-the-scenes\u200d conversations demonstrate there is a fair deal to be\u2064 made that addresses our issues,&#8221;\u2062 according\u200c to the WGA\u200c negotiating team. &#8220;We have made it clear that\u2062 we will negotiate with one\u2064 or more of the major studios, outside the confines of\u2064 the \u200cAMPTP, to establish the new WGA\u2063 deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:446px\" class=\"aligncenter\"><figcaption>Longtime\u2064 member of the entertainment industry Greg Twiford, president of TV &#038; Motion Pictures Animal Trainers Association, \u200bdemonstrated in support of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and\u200c Radio\u2062 Artists (SAG-AFTRA) outside Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., on July 18, 2023. Twiford, also a member of Teamsters Local 399, said he was trying to end the strike because the animal actors were starving. (Jill McLaughlin\/The\u200d Epoch\u200b Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, the suggestion was \u2063dismissed by the \u200cAMPTP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u200c AMPTP \u200bmember companies are aligned and are negotiating together to reach a resolution,&#8221; a statement from \u2062the \u2063alliance \u2062said. &#8220;Any suggestion to the contrary is false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every member company of the \u2064AMPTP\u200b wants a \u200cfair deal for writers and actors and an end to the strikes, which are affecting not only our writer and\u2063 actor colleagues, but also thousands of others across the industry. That is \u200cwhy the AMPTP has\u200d repeatedly put forward\u200b offers that address major priorities of the WGA, \u2063including\u2063 a last \u2062round of \u200coffers on Aug. 17th and 18th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WGA negotiators have acknowledged there have been movements by the studios on their position regarding \u200cprotections against the\u2063 use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, &#8220;but we are not yet where we need to be. As one example, they continue to refuse to regulate the use of our \u200cwork to train [Artificial Intelligence] to\u2062 write new content for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-dominates-2021-golden-globe-nominations-full-list-announced\/\" title=\"Netflix Dominates 2021 Golden Globe Nominations: Full List Announced\">motion picture<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Union officials also said the latest AMPTP offer included some salary boosts, &#8220;but only for a statistically tiny \u200ccategory of screenwriters, excluding all but the\u2062 first writers of original screenplays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 offer also included a guarantee of minimum writing\u2064 staff size for television, &#8220;but the loopholes, limitations, and omissions in their modest proposal &#8230; make them effectively toothless,&#8221; according to the union. The studios also agreed to &#8220;allow\u200c six \u200cWGA staff\u2063 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/striking-actors-writers-swarm-hollywood-in-massive-solidarity-march\/\" title=\"Hollywood flooded by united actors and writers in solidarity march.\">study limited\u2063 streaming viewership\u2063 data<\/a>\u200d for the next three years,&#8221; but a viewership-based compensation package would \u2064have \u200cto wait until \u200cthe\u2063 next contract negotiations in three years, according to the union.<\/p>\n<p>The AMPTP responded by accusing the WGA of remaining &#8220;entrenched in its original position, except for \u200ba single modest chan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) joined in support, demanding fair wages and better working conditions. The united front of these creative professionals aims to bring attention to the industry&#8217;s exploitation and push for necessary changes. 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