The WGA and the changing nature of work

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In an effort to get a fair deal with the AMPTP - the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike since May 2nd of this year. A month later, in early June, the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) authorized their own strike. As we post this episode, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have extended their deadline to make a deal until July 12. In this episode, Hello Monday producer and SAG-AFTRA member Sarah Storm hosts WGA Strike Captain Laura Jacqmin for a conversation on how we got here, and what might come next for the Writers’ Strike. As a veteran TV, theater, and video game writer, Laura has a deep understanding of the industry and what it will take for her union to get a fair deal. From AI to fair pay, she’ll break it all down to help the rest of us understand how their fight might be indicative of a larger movement for all knowledge workers. For more on Laura Jacqmin, check out her website. To learn more about the current and potential labor actions in the entertainment industry, visit WGAE, WGAW, SAG-AFTRA, and the AMPTP. Follow Sarah Storm on LinkedIn, and find her acting work on IMDB. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Become a part of the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, visit us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET, and join our LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners to continue this week’s conversation.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
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0:16.0	LinkedIn News
0:21.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and I'm Sarah Storm and this is Hello Monday.
0:30.0	Now Sarah's many of you know is our show's producer and today I'm bringing her on as a host because she's really the perfect person for this conversation.
0:39.0	We're going to talk about the writer's strike.
0:42.0	Sarah is also a working actor and I know a lot of you know that too.
0:46.0	She's a SAG after a union member and we're sitting down to record this just days after her union has authorized its own strike.
0:55.0	Sarah, what does that mean?
0:56.0	So it doesn't mean that anybody's going on strike but it does mean that as the SAG after negotiating committee is sitting down with the AMPTP.
1:05.0	The alliance of motion picture and television producers.
1:09.0	Yep, those guys. It means that if my union SAG and the AMPTP don't agree on what both sides think is a fair deal by the time SAG's current contract expires.
1:19.0	About 98% of our union has said to the negotiating committee, you can tell us we're on strike.
1:27.0	The writer's strike is about writers for sure and people who work in creative fields like potentially actors.
1:34.0	But we wanted to program a special episode about it here on the show because I believe that paying attention to this strike prepares us to understand something about the changing nature of any work that involves human creativity and ingenuity.
1:47.0	And Sarah, you knew exactly who we should speak with.
1:52.0	I absolutely did. My friend Laura Jackman is a member of the writers guild of America West.
1:57.0	The WGA has about 11,000 members between its two branches east and west.
2:02.0	And Laura's been a member for about 10 years now.
2:05.0	There's two pieces to the work that any WGA member does.
2:08.0	There's the creative act which is coming up with stories and pitches and creating characters.
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