WGA Strike Meetings: New York Crowd Told “Entire Labor Movement Is Behind Us”
deadline.comCheck back for updates… On the second day of the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in 15 years, the guild is holding big meetings on both coasts with members to detail how they got here, what going on and what’s next.
Picket lines broke up earlier Wednesday as the WGA East met at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in NYC and the WGA West plan to meet at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The gathering at the former was set to kick off at 6 p.m. ET, while the meeting at the latter is set for 7 p.m. PT. The Great Hall has a capacity of nearly 1,000, and former Oscars venue the Shrine can hold about 6,000 people.
Although the Great Hall meeting took a bit longer than expected to get started, the crowd clearly was fired up, according to sources at the venue.
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