By Jorge Garcia

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Unions representing academics, truck drivers and different employees who will likely be headed quickly to the bargaining desk turned out in downtown Los Angeles on Friday to help Hollywood’s hanging movie and tv writers.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) started a piece stoppage on Might 2 after failing to succeed in an settlement for greater wages with media corporations together with Walt Disney (NYSE:) Co, Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:) and Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:) Inc.

On Friday, just a few hundred members of unions within the tourism and hospitality industries, academics, logistics employees and public staff rallied in downtown Los Angeles in a present of unity. The collaborating unions represented greater than 200,000 employees with collective bargaining agreements additionally on account of expire in 2023, organizers stated.

“It should be a sizzling labor summer time,” Lorena Gonzalez, govt secretary of the California Labor Federation, instructed the gang. “It is your energy in standing collectively that is going to make sure the subsequent technology of employees have the flexibility to reside.”

Organizers stated the unions had common calls for for livable wages amid rising meals, housing and transportation prices.

Author Danielle Roderick stated she hoped the writers would lead a motion of “all people not taking it.”

“Everyone seems like they’re getting eaten alive not directly,” stated Roderick, who attended the rally along with her husband, additionally a author, and two kids.

The Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP), which represents main studios, has stated it supplied “beneficiant” will increase in compensation to writers. No new talks between the 2 sides are scheduled.