In an age of streaming, Hollywood writers are fighting for better pay and compensation for their work.

Leadership for the Writers Guild of America, a union representing over 11,500 writers, voted unanimously to strike, going into effect 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday. The decision came after six weeks of negotiations with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple, NBC Universal, Paramount, and others companies under the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing,” the WGA said in a statement, adding that "the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing."

The walkout may not immediately affect shows or films in production with finished scripts, but daily and late-night shows will likely cease production. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers' shows have all announced shutdowns. Saturday Night Live has not yet announced the state of its weekly episode.

Seth Meyers, on Late Night this afternoon, stated: “No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation. They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that’s being set out by the guild. And I support those demands.”

The WGA also cited AI development and usage as a motivating factor behind the strike, calling on studios to protect creative professions. They also demand that studios hire a certain amount of writers for a set amount of time on projects, instead of relying on "mini rooms" — the practice where a team of writers develop a project for a short period of time, and are then fired, often leaving a single person to write the scripts.

“From their refusal to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, to the creation of a ‘day rate’ in comedy variety, to their stonewalling on free work for screenwriters and on AI for all writers, they have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession," the WGA wrote.