WGA Strike At Day 50: Major Hollywood Unions To Join Big L.A. March Tomorrow As Economic Impact Mounts
deadline.comEditor’s note: Part 2 of two-part series about the writers strike crossing the 50-day mark. The 50-day-old Writers Guild strike has now reached the halfway point of the guild’s 100-day strike of 2007-08, and tomorrow it will be one-third as long as the 153-day strike of 1988 – the longest in the guild’s history.
By the guild’s own reckoning, the strike has already cost the California economy $1.5 billion ($30 million a day) in lost economic output – which is already more than the $1.287 billion in gains ($429 million a year) it says its proposals would cost the companies.
On Wednesday, the guild will suspend picketing for the day in Los Angeles to stage a “March and Rally for a Fair Contract,” which kicks off at 10 am at Pan Pacific Park and ends at the La Brea Tar Pits, where representatives from the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild, IATSE, the Teamsters and the American Federation of Musicians will speak to striking writers and their supporters.
In a message to guild members today, WGA negotiating committee member Yahlin Chang said that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers “is looking to dismantle the writers’ room as we know it.
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