About 1,000 Hollywood writers and supporters marched in Los Angeles on Wednesday, voicing confidence that they’ll win out.
The event marked 50 days of the ongoing protest as the Writers Guild of America continues to fight for better contracts with studios.
Speakers at the gathering, dubbed the “WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract,” focused on major support they’ve received from other Hollywood unions.
“We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed,” said Adam Conover, a writer and a member of the guild’s board and its negotiating committee.
“We are going to win because they need us,” he told a cheering crowd at the at the La Brea Tar Pits.
“Writers are the ones who stare at a blank page. We are the ones who invent the characters, tell the stories and write the jokes that their audiences love,” Conover continued. “They’d have nothing without us.”
Discussions with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the organization representing studios, have been on hold since negotiations stalled prior to the expiration of the writers’ contract on May 1.
A day later, the strike was formally announced. It has since caused a wave of productions to shut down temporarily.
Hollywood actors are now facing a similar scenario with their own union’s negotiations. Talks between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have been ongoing surrounding a contract that will expire on June 30.
Earlier in the month, SAG-AFTRA members successfully voted to authorize a strike if a deal is not reached before the deadline.
With News Wire Services