On Tuesday, more than 11,000 television and film writers went on strike.

Members of the writers' guild of America and among those on the picket line was Michael

Schur.

Mike co-created shows like Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 9.9 in the good place and he's

written for the office in Saturday Night Live.

Now he's one of the members of the guild's negotiating committee.

So you're on strike?

Now how does that feel?

Yeah, it doesn't feel good.

I mean, I'm not sleeping well.

None of us is.

And I think it is just a testament to how dire we think the situation really is that we

felt that we had no choice but to do this.

Mike says streaming services have completely upended how writers get compensated and made

the profession incredibly unstable.

And we see where this is going and where it's going is a gig economy and that's not a

recipe for long term success and it's not a system that will allow writers to have careers

and lives basically.

So we're just saying like we see the future and it's dire and we have to do something about

it now or it'll be too late.

So you feel like this is like more existential than just, you know, we need more compensation.

Yes, 100%.

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