Scabby the Rat and about a dozen members of the Writers Guild Staff Union are still outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard this afternoon as inside the WGA and the studios wrapped up their first day of contract talks.
“What do we want?,” a throng of striking staffers chanted earlier Monday starting around 11:30 am PT. “A fair contract!”
“When do we want it?,” they added carrying mocking placards that read ‘WGAW Management: Do You Know How Unions Work?’ on the street ””Now!” was the reply.
In a day of some drama with the police being called at one point, the nearly-month long work stoppage by WGA staffers had some added irony Monday as the WGA West and WGA East negotiating committees officially sat down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for the first time since the gut-wrenching strike of 2023.
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