WGA Aims to Flex Industry Muscle With March and Rally at Pivotal Moment for Hollywood Labor Talks
variety.comWGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract is set to kick off at Pan Pacific Park, with the crowd marching along Third Street and Fairfax to wind down to the La Brea Tar Pits off Wilshire Boulevard, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The neighborhood’s telltale smell of methane (all that buried oil has the unmistakable aroma of rotten eggs) was wafting strong through the open area of the Tar Pits where dozens of WGA staffers, sound, stage and lighting experts are busy setting up for the speechifying that is expected to begin around noon PT.
About 1,000 writers and supporters set off from the Pan Pacific rally spot around 10:45 a.m. PT. The WGA’s first big public rally outside of its regular picket locations also comes as members of the Directors Guild of America are in the final days of a ratification vote on a three-year contract that the guild reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
And SAG-AFTRA is in the midst of complication contract negotiations that could lead the performers union to its first industry-wide strike in more than 40 years.
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