The contract between the writers Guild of America and the alliance of motion picture and television

producers ended on Monday, the two sides failed to agree on a new three-year contract.

On Tuesday, began the strike.

Union members have been picketing in Los Angeles and New York City.

Outside studios including Universal, Netflix and Paramount Pictures.

studios are trying to pay us as little as possible for the least amount of time as possible.

And we're here to say that's not how we make the movies and the television that audiences watch that they sell and that they make billions of dollars off of.

Like many other screenwriters, Sanchez Wetzel wants better pay. At a moment they can actually live off.

Brittany Nichols writes for the ABC show Abbot Elementary.

You're getting checks for $3, $7, $10. It's not enough to put together any sort of consistent lifestyle.

She told NPR she used to get half of her original writing fee. Each time networks reared an episode she wrote.

But now when her episodes are sold to streamers, she's only getting 5.5%.

It can really be a real shock because you know we get our residuals in these green envelopes.

You get a green envelope you're like, alright, here we go. Hopefully something good's in here.

And then sometimes you just get a stack of checks for 7 cents.

You heard right, 7 cents.

Now if you're wondering how all this will affect the program as you love,

you probably won't see much of an immediate effect on shows with scripts that are already written.

So all you fans of House of the Dragon and other shows that are filming from existing scripts, you can relax for a while.

But soap operas might need to go on hiatus and as for late night TV.

From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmelon.

So welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show you are here.

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