Brittani Nichols, a writer on ABC’s Emmy-winning series “Abbott Elementary” and a Writers’ Guild of America West captain, spoke with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about the stakes of the film and TV writers’ strike that began on Tuesday. “We are demanding that this industry be one that can sustain a career,” Nichols told the news outlet. “We have a consistently profitable business, but right now the actions of the studios are ones that seem like they only care about Wall Street.
And the amount of the pie that we’re getting in streaming is almost nonexistent.” Negotiations with the studios and their collective representative – the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – have gone nowhere, Nichols mentioned, going on to say that they “just want to continue to get as much work out of us for the least amount of money.” “TV writer pay has fallen 23% when you adjust for inflation,” Nichols explained.