Actors and writers strikes enter second week with no signs of a deal to get Hollywood working again

The combined strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters is entering its second week with no sign of a swift ending. For a week, actors including household names like Tina Fey, Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick, Rosario Dawson, David Duchovny and other stars have joined working class performers and writers on picket lines outside studios and corporate offices of streaming giants Amazon, MAX and Netflix. There’s no indication when negotiations with studios and streaming companies will resume. Their bargaining group says the companies have offered both writers and actors substantial pay increases and have tried to meet other demands. On the picket lines, strikers frequently say streaming has upended their livelihoods.