WGA's battle is long-coming. Will others join the strike?
Info Members of the Writers Guild of America go on strike and picket outside The Culver Studios in Culver City, California on Tuesday, May 2, 2023....
Info Members of the Writers Guild of America go on strike and picket outside The Culver Studios in Culver City, California on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Photo by Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock. After months of tensions and fraught negotiations , the Writers Guild of America hit the picket lines this week to make good on promises of a looming strike , calling the move — the Guild's first strike since 2008 — an existential fight for the profession. Writers say the studios wouldn't engage their terms, and that they don't feel they have access to key information needed to make a fair deal.