Although streaming has been a boon for television, it has upended how writers are compensated. Writers say that they work longer hours for less pay and that they no longer can rely on a steady stream of residual income they used to get in the days of broadcast TV, when successful shows lived on for years in syndicated reruns or the once-lucrative home video market.
\u201cThis is why Hollywood is officially ON strike. Hold the line @WGAEast @WGAWest! \ud83d\udc4f #WGAStrong #WGAStrike\u201dthat the need for a strike became increasingly evident over recent days of bargaining. "Here is what all writers know: the companies have broken this business," the WGA committee said."They have taken so much from the very people, the writers, who have made them wealthy. But what they cannot take from us is each other, our solidarity, our mutual commitment to save ourselves and this profession that we love."