Writers’ assistant Olga Lexell used to rack up around $10,000 a year in medical bills to manage a chronic condition, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, that requires her to sit through thyroid X-rays and frequent blood tests. While her show was on hiatus, she would pay $500 a month to extend the insurance that the studio offered, even though it was “never that good.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers “flatly rejected” a 2014 WGA proposal for a joint labor-management training program, he said. While that has meant a pay bump for some, it still leaves many struggling to stay afloat as they navigate the high cost of living in Los Angeles. “The network show I work on has a huge budget per episode,” says one script coordinator, who prefers to remain anonymous out of concern of professional retaliation. “I’m not breaking that budget by making $16.63 an hour.”
“This happened overnight, once the contract went through,” said one writers’ assistant who was making $13.50 an hour prior to joining the union. He said that his show’s studio stopped honoring the guarantee immediately., in particular, were repeatedly brought up as examples of studios that allegedly do not negotiate hourly rates and cite the union minimums as all they are allowed to offer . Sources close to the studios dispute that such policies are in place.
“They say, ‘We only have this much in the budget for this job,’ and I say, ‘Well, take it from somewhere else,” he told. “This is the infrastructure of my show. An extra $50 or $100 makes a big difference to people a week. … These aren’t minimum wage jobs. These are skilled jobs. These are jobs that are extraordinarily stressful, that take a lot of hours.”
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