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‘The G Word’ Creator Adam Conover on Why Hollywood Writers Are Striking: ‘Things Are Wrong in America’ (Video)

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by 97% of guild members, began Tuesday at Midnight (Eastern) after contract negotiations with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down.

At issue, the guild is trying to stop the development of what it describes as “a gig economy inside a union workforce,” particularly at streaming services.

Among other things, WGA seeks to improve compensation for streaming TV shows and films, and stop the abuse of so-called mini-rooms, a recent practice in which writers with a TV show pitch are required to actually assemble a writers room, with writers paid at scale, and create full season scripts even before a show has been greenlit.Watch Conover’s full interview below..

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