Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Strikers Protest Lack Of Progress On Safe Zone Outside NBCUniversal; Studio Responds
deadline.comIt’s Day 19 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 92 of the WGA strike. Frustrated with the lack of progress on a safe zone for picketers outside of the NBCUniversal lot, SAG-AFTRA Board Member Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher was joined by WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair David Goodman and U.S.
Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) on Tuesday to hand deliver a petition demanding a swifter resolution. The WGA says its been eight weeks since the LAPD’s Labor Relations unit told the studio to create a k-rail pedestrian path along Lankershim Boulevard, but nothing has been completed.
Around the time the writers hit the picket line, the studio cut off access to Lankershim sidewalks to accommodate a long in-the-works improvement project.
As a result, picketers could only congregate on the corners or picket outside of Gate 8 on Barham Boulevard, where a row of Ficus trees were unexpectedly trimmed during the dead of summer (and the studio was fined as a result). “They ripped up the fucking sidewalks and our members said, ‘nice try,'” Goodman told the crowd Monday. “We’re not going anywhere.
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