"CEO Fridays" menu flyer from 2023 WGA strike
date: label: date made
content: 2023
name: label: Associated Name
content: Writers Guild of America
label: maker
content: Blackmon, Jimmy
label: maker
content: Lang, Rachel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: “CEO Fridays” menu flyer distributed by participants in a demonstration during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike of 2023. The “menu” is printed on red glossy paper with “MENU” printed in yellow ink on the front, with information about the demonstration and strike inside. The back features a QR code.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The “CEO Fridays” demonstration was held June 30, 2023 in front of an upscale pop-up restaurant, Netflix Bites, set up by the eponymous streaming media company in Beverly Hills. WGA members staged a grill decorated with pictures of entertainment company CEOs, speakers playing “yacht rock” songs, and condiment squeeze bottles cheekily labeled “cheap residuals,” “mass layoffs,” “very long vacations,” “A.I.” and “blood of the writers themselves.” Actor Adam Lustick played a fictitious BBQ chef offering to serve food to “exclusively billionaires and media CEOs.” WGA Captain and Netflix employee Jimmy Blackmon created a special menu for volunteers to hand out to passers-by. Among the items listed were Fair Wages Fries, Human-Written Hot Dogs and the Sustainable Career Sundae, each outlining union demands in tongue-in-cheek descriptions with a link to the Guild's WGA Strike website.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In the Spring and Summer of 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) went on strike after collective bargaining negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down over issues including residual pay, use of artificial intelligence, and working conditions. The historic strike was the first instance of actors joining writers in striking since 1960, and brought the American entertainment industry to a near standstill of new production.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Labor
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0124.04
label: accession number
content: 2023.0124
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0124.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: menu
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 13.97 cm