variety.com: The backchanneling began to pick up steam after the WGA strike passed the 60-day mark and actors joined writers on picket lines in July.
At that pivotal point, Chris Keyser and David Goodman, co-chairs of the Writers Guild of America negotiating committee, began having numerous conversations, by phone and in person, with key executives that influenced the course of the negotiations. After 146 days on strike, the WGA and AMPTP came to a tentative three-year agreement on the evening of Sept. 24.
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It is refreshing to see action being taken anywhere. While I do not know the intimate details about the strike and its repercussions, other than what was in this article I know that it gained a lot of momentum and caused a lot of problems for the “execs” of these studios. It's powerful to see what can be done when people choose to come together and do something about it. Their plan worked and they negotiated a “great deal” to end the strike. I think it is interesting that it had to come to this though, you would think that writers would be the first to be paid considering it is them that actually writes the content that we see on stage and on screen into existence. And in 2023 there have been lots of conversations about the topic “corporate greed” and this strike has just fueled the fire. I think it will be very interesting in the next coming years to see the side effects of this strike. Will it push more people across workforces and careers to fight against “corparte greed” and big executives? I have no idea but I am glad their strike was successful and I cannot wait to see the new content they bring to the screen with it.
This article thoroughly discusses the process and journey that the strike has taken to reach this final deal. I didn’t know all of the specifics about all of the executives of these films and television giants before reading this article. It was fascinating to read about the detailed events and thoughts of this whole process and this article provides a really scrupulous report of everything that happened and how it happened. One event that I found very intriguing was the “executive foursome” showing up in person to the AMPTP headquarters. The details about AI and the disdain from the executives about discussing it surprised me. Everything that the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and AMPTP were asking for in terms of AI was more than reasonable in my opinion and the executives were completely unyielding and unreasonable throughout the entire process when it came to AI.
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