we should note that comcast, the corporation that owns our parent company, nbc universal, is one of the entertainment companies represented by amptp. and some employees of the nbc universal news group are represented by the writers guild of america. let s bring in marissa par from los angeles. this is, as we heard seth meyers say, the first major strike in more than a decade. what does each side want? reporter: for starters, from the very beginning of negotiations, writers have been asking for more pay. and a big reason for that, the headline from that was really this new world of streaming and they said that streaming has created some difficult conditions with a lot less pay than this industry for them used to provide. let s talk about the sticking points. we re talking about the things that those negotiations really stalled on, that they couldn t move forward on. so the studios and the writers were at odds with minimum number of weeks of employment for tv writers.
The Association of Talent Agents has sent its member agencies a 22-page summary of the “force majeure” provisions contained in the contracts of WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and DGA. This comes right on the heels of final negotiations for a new Writers Guild contract. A “force majeure” is a provision in a contract that addresses
A writer's strike has long been anticipated as the Writers Guild of America has negotiated with studios over a contract set to end May 1. WGA has made some of the requests to factor the streaming economy into compensation packages, such as residual fees, and set standards around artificial intelligence. (Via CNN)