We're deep into the third week of the Ryder Strike, which is stop production on

television shows and movies across the country. Late night shows like Saturday Night Live

and the tonight show starting Jimmy Fallon have gone dark and hits like avid elementary

and strange things have halted production. Outside Warner Bros. Paramount, Sony, Netflix,

and the other Hollywood studios and on Streets of Manhattan, striking writers united

behind a single message. The strike came after talk broke down between the writer's

guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers. The WGA is

the union that represents TV and film writers and the alliance is the organization that bargains

for over 350 production companies. The WGA says the industry's turn to streaming means

lower wages, less job security, and lower residual payments for their members. The union says

they're also fighting for better work conditions and job protection from AI programs like chat

and GPT. Meanwhile, the Alliance says they've

negotiated in good faith and that the wage increase they're offering is the biggest in 25 years,

including benefits like health care and pensions. The package is more than double what the union

claims it is. Into America's parent company NBC Universal is part of the alliance for the

television and movie productions. Writers began tweeting photos of three cent paychecks as evidence

of their underpayment on episodes they wrote for streaming platforms and others were tweeting

horror stories of working long hours with no pay on shows that were never released. Celebrities

like Drew Barrymore, Rob Lowe, and Sherry Shepherd have lent support even President Biden chimed in.

I sincerely hope the writers striking Hollywood gets resolved and the writers are given a fair

deal they deserve as soon as possible. This is iconic meaningful American industry and we need the

writers and all the workers and everyone involved to tell the stories of our nation.

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