The staff of the Writers Guild of America West on Monday brought their labor fight to SAG-AFTRA, where the writer’s union is commencing negotiations with studios and streamers.
The Writers Guild Staff Union began picketing on the sidewalk outside the SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Wilshire Blvd. around noon after getting word that bargaining between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) was starting there.
Picketers carried signs with slogans like “WGAMPTP,” “WGAW Management: Do You Know How Unions Work?” and “We Tried to Wrap This in September!” The union also erected Scabby the Rat, an inflatable rat that is a symbol of union disputes and alleged union busting, outside the headquarters of the actors’ union building.
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