TELEVISION-SCREENWRITERS/NEGOTIATION – REUTERS Agency
Sep 23 (Reuters) – Negotiators from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) union and Hollywood studios will meet again on Sunday, after a fourth day of talks in which no agreement was reached to end the strike. the scriptwriters.
The WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents studios including Walt Disney, Netflix and other media companies, held talks Saturday as the strike reached its 145th day.
The screenwriters began the strike in early May, after negotiations failed to reach an agreement on remuneration, minimum staff in the writers’ rooms, the use of artificial intelligence and the residual rights that screenwriters receive for the popular streaming programs.
The SAG-AFTRA union, which groups 160,000 members, from actors to stuntmen, joined the writers in July, calling a work stoppage and leading Hollywood to two simultaneous strikes for the first time in 63 years. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing in Spanish by Ricardo Figueroa)
Source: Ambito
