© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: SAG-AFTRA actors strike towards Hollywood studios as they be a part of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in a picket line exterior the Netflix places of work in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Picture
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood strikers the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and actors’ union SAG-AFTRA filed a grievance with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday towards Comcast’s (NASDAQ: ) NBCUniversal, accusing the corporate of blocking a picket website.
The unions stated NBCUniversal violated their freedom to picket and put their members in danger by blocking a public sidewalk close to the location of the corporate’s California studio with an ongoing development venture.
NBCUniversal didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Final week, for the primary time in 63 years, high-profile Hollywood actors joined movie and tv writers on picket traces, demanding greater pay within the streaming age and restrictions on the usage of synthetic intelligence.
The WGA grievance stated NBCUniversal “compelled picketers to patrol busy streets with heavy automobile site visitors the place two picketers had already been hit by a automobile.”
SAG-AFTRA stated members had been compelled to “picket in an unsafe, crowded location, which exacerbated an appalling public security scenario to impede the strikers’ proper to interact in protected concerted picketing and patrolling off employer premises throughout a lawful strike.”
Each unions requested the NLRB to order NBCUniversal to repair the scenario.
