ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Greg Iwinski, a late-night TV writer, walked off the job this year amid a dramatic surge of workers going out on strike and he says the trend made its presence felt at the bargaining table.
"The ammunition that a company has, whether it s an automaker or a TV studio, is telling you that a strike won t work your collective action won t help," Iwinski, who helped broker an agreement that delivered significant pay increases for 11,000 Hollywood writers, told ABC News.
A slew of contract breakthroughs over the course of 2023 dispelled that notion, Iwinski said. "If you hold out long enough, you will break them and win," he said.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, which negotiated on behalf of the TV studios, did not immediately respond to ABC News request for comment.
Iwinski was among more than 500,000 workers who went out on strike nationwide in 2023, nearly tripling the figure reco
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