Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafov.

And I'm Lorian McKenna. On today's show we're welcoming WGA Negotiating Committee members David A Goodman and

Michelle Mulrooney to discuss the Writers Strike.

Michelle is the Vice President of the Guild writes for TV and film and is on the negotiating committee. As a writer she wrote

Sherlock Holmes a game of shadows and power rangers. She was recently announced as the

co-writer on Disney's upcoming Big Thunder Mountain.

David A Goodman, a former WGA president, and co-chair of the current negotiating committee,

has worked on TV shows like the Golden Girls Futurama and Family Guy and on the feature side most

recently wrote Paramount Plus's award-winning film Honor Society.

As negotiating committee members Michelle and David have been on the front lines of this historic strike and are here to help us understand exactly what the writers are fighting for, why the stakes are higher than ever, what you can do wherever you are to help support the cause.

Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having us.

Absolutely. So glad that you could, I'm sure you're busy, so we're glad that you can make the time to come here

you know to help us understand kind of what the writers are fighting for as Lorian mentioned you know and why these

stakes are so high. So could we just start and we'll let you lead this?

You know, what are the basic negotiating categories where and where we stand.

What are the big things to help our audience understand?

I mean, I think the headline that we hope our audience can understand is there has been a really comprehensive

assault on compensation and working conditions across the board in all work areas of

the writer business for years and years. the this comprehensive group of issues. And so what on the table and what was remains on the table at the point that we unfortunately had to break off negotiations and were forced out on strike was a comprehensive package of proposals that were

aimed at addressing compensation and working condition issues in features in episodic television and in comedy variety.

And what we've realized is that in the

because of the changes in the business

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