The writers aspired to sign a package of salary increases valued at almost 600 million dollars, in addition to obtaining other improvements in the minimum wage, better health insurance, the creation of a pension plan and the revision of the individual payments they receive. for productions broadcast on streaming platforms.
He Hollywood Writers Guild will do today the first strike in 15 years after the negotiations for salary improvements with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers failed last night, the international press reported.
According to the specialized portal The Hollywood Reporter, the protests will begin today at 1:00 p.m. in Los Angeles at Amazon, CBS, Disney, Netflix, Fox, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Universal studios, among others.
The writers aspired to sign a package of salary increases valued at almost 600 million dollars, in addition to obtaining other improvements in the minimum wage, better health insurance, the creation of a pension plan and the revision of the individual payments they receive. for productions broadcast on streaming platforms.
Yesterday, US media such as The Warp and Variety had reported that, despite having made some progress in the negotiations in recent days, the two parties remained “very far apart” to reach a conciliation.
Finally, the Alliance of Film and Television Producers announced in a statement that the negotiations had “concluded without agreement.”
In the last conflict of 2017, which also kept Hollywood in suspense, they reached an agreement before the deadline expired, with the reminder that ten years earlier the scriptwriters ceased their activities in protest for three months between 2007 and 2008.
Source: Ambito
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