WGA Strike At Day 50: Writers Remain Resolved Amid Hardship, Keep Spirits Up Amid Physical & Mental Picket Line Fatigue
deadline.comEditor’s note: Part 1 of two-part series about the writers strike crossing the 50-day mark. The Writers Guild of America has been on strike for 50 days now.
For the past eight weeks, writers have taken to picket lines across the country in their fight for a fair contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
In the days after the strike commenced, writers were adamant they were in it for the long haul. Although the crowds have ebbed and flowed in the weeks since, leadership insists that the resolve has remained strong. “It’s scary to walk away from the job.
It’s painful to have to inflict some of the damage on those with whom we work and the city we work in,” WGA Negotiating Committee co-chair Chris Keyser told Deadline. “The dedication, the fervency, the insistence on the part of every writer that this is a fight that they will stick with until we win it is, I would say, even stronger than it was when we began.” Keyser added that the 50-day mark has highlighted a “callousness” on the part of the AMPTP for not returning to the negotiating table.
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