Warner CEO booed outdoors as supporter of writers’ strike at Boston University
BOSTON (Associated Press) – Dozens of Boston University students marched to one of Hollywood’s biggest studios on Sunday as they delivered their commencement address at a stadium packed with demonstrators supporting the Hollywood writer’s director. Some turned their backs on him and shouted, “Pay the author!” Strike a picket outside.
About 100 protesters chanted “no wages, no pages” outside Nickerson Field as Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav addresses inside the stadium. Accompanied by screaming, placard-waving, inflatable rats. Thousands of alumni, families and educators who attended the ceremony had to walk past protesters to enter the stadium.
Kim Caramel, a writer and producer from North Stonington, Connecticut, hopes that the protesters’ participation in the graduation ceremony will inspire students to think differently about what is important in life. said there is.
Caramel, who won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for her sister’s show Inside Amy Schumer, said, “The writers here today are helping show students that wealth is different from goodness. let’s,” he said.
Inside the stadium, dozens of students in red graduation gowns stood up and turned their backs on Mr. Zaslav during his speech. Other students booed during his speech and shouted in support of the striking writer.
Zaslav, who graduated from the university’s law school in the mid-1980s, was a controversial choice, with many alumni dissenting on social media.
About 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America retired in early May, citing the loss of revenue from the rise of streaming, and negotiations for a new contract fell apart, and they haven’t returned to the negotiating table since. . This is the first writers strike, and Hollywood strike of any kind, in 15 years.
The union wants, among other things, a higher minimum wage, more writers for each show and shorter exclusivity contracts, but the union says all conditions are falling amid the boom in streaming content. there is
The Federation of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced that it has proposed “generous increases in writer compensation and improved streaming survival rates,” including the largest first-year wage hike in WGA contracts in more than 25 years. The creation of a new category fee means a new higher minimum for mid-level writers.
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