Inside the writers' 'guerrilla tactics' to shut down live productions
On a frigid early morning in Chicago last week, screenwriter Michael Gilio bundled into a car in the city's West Side with other writers and made his way to Cinespace studios, located in an industrial zone.
Gilio, a strike captain for the Writers Guild of America, heard that Showtime's coming-of-age drama "The Chi" was planning to resume filming its sixth season at 4 a.m.
So he and his colleagues sprang into action. They fired off emails to other guild members in the area, hoping some might turn out in the early hours. They needed two picketers.
