By Jorge Garcia

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

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) started a piece stoppage on Could 2 after failing to achieve an settlement for larger 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, lecturers, 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 because of expire in 2023, organizers stated.

“It will be a sizzling labor summer time,” Lorena Gonzalez, government secretary of the California Labor Federation, instructed the group. “It is your power in standing collectively that is going to make sure the following technology of employees have the flexibility to stay.”

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 “everyone not taking it.”

“All people seems like they’re getting eaten alive not directly,” stated Roderick, who attended the rally together 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.