Ranking The L.A. Picket Lines: The Best And Worst Places To Strike Over The Past 100 Days
deadline.comEditor’s note: One in a series of stories marking the 100th day of the WGA strike. Although it might be important to both the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA that every Los Angeles-area studio have a union presence during the strike, some picket lines hold more weight than others.
In other words, it didn’t take long before writers — and much later, the actors — started picking their favorite locales when it came time to protest room sizes, low residuals and the future use of artificial intelligence.
As part of our ongoing coverage of the WGA strike, Deadline has visited every major picket line in the city. It wasn’t long before we figured out who had the best (and worst) turnout, who touted the biggest names, and who attracted the best reunions.
Here’s what we found, ranked from worst to best. Considered enemy lines from the start, picketing at the Lankershim Boulevard lot used to be downright dangerous because of an ongoing construction project that just happened to impact the sidewalks at the start of the WGA strike May 2.
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