“Everything starts with the writer, and we need to make sure that those who profit from the creative brilliance of writers, share those profits with writers, so they can be paid properly, enjoy fair working conditions and be treated with dignity and respect. These are the principles on which the trade union movement was founded, and they are more important today than they have ever been. Speaking before the protest, WGGB President Sandi Toksvig OBE said: We were also joined by our sister Federation of Entertainment Unions and their members – Equity, Bectu, the Musicians’ Union and the NUJ, alongside WGA members resident in the UK. WGGB President Sandi Toksvig OBE and WGGB Chair Lisa Holdsworth came together with over 200 fellow writers including Jack Thorne ( His Dark Materials, Enola Holmes 2), Russell T Davies ( It’s A Sin, Dr Who, Queer as Folk), Alice Nutter and Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty), Dennis Kelly ( Together, Utopia) and Succession writers Jamie Carragher, Jesse Armstrong, Tony Roche and Francesca Gardiner. The WGGB protest took place in London’s Leicester Square. Īctions took place in over 30 countries at locations including Netflix, Buenos Aires, Argentina the European Parliament, Brussels Apple and Amazon, Canada National Assembly, Bulgaria FoxTelecolombia, Colombia Eiffel Tower, France Cologne Cathedral, Germany Tel Aviv Central Library, Israel Estudios Churubusco, Mexico EYE Film Museum, Netherlands Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland Netflix, Seoul, South Korea Filmoteca de Catalunya and Valenciana, Spain the Riksdag, Sweden and Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom (see below). The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain joined writers and other workers around the world for ‘Screenwriters Everywhere’, a global day of solidarity and action on 14 June 2023 in support of the 11,500 members of Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East, who have been on strike since.
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