2023 The fight continues for all of our members, TV and screenwriters as well as journalists and podcasters, to achieve compensation commensurate to the value of our important work. 2023 In the meantime, the guarantees that screenwriters have won around credit and compensation for their work have set a benchmark that professionals in the music industry, who generally don’t have the right to strike on their own, can point to in their own efforts for more equitable compensation. Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 Advertisement But screenwriters aren’t the only ones worried about what automation means for film and television. 2023 After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. 2023 After nearly 150 days on strike, the screenwriters secured a number of groundbreaking wins in their new contract with the major film and television studios. Recent Examples on the Web The screenwriters guild last week reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end a nearly five-month strike, and in July, 340,000 UPS workers won their strongest contract in decades on the strength of a strike threat alone.
