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✍🎬 15 YEARS AGO… https://youtu.be/YfeObquD9y8
What was gained from the 2007 strike that went on for a hundred days. What was accomplish?
One of the things gained was domain over the internet. That’s when all of these streaming services were first popping up and YouTube was a thing.
Studios were saying that writers should not have any payment for anything that goes online.
And if we had not made those gains, if we had not gone on strike and put our foot down back then, there wouldn’t be television writers now.
Can you imagine all of the streaming shows that you know and love with writers not making any money off of those?
That was the future that the studios wanted. They want to continue to push us down and bully us.
The studios have devalued our contributions. They have shifted the industry to prioritize streaming, while not following that up with the actions of making sure that our pay reflects those changes.
A lot of the ways that writers are able to sustain a career are through residuals. That means that we’re taking part in that profit participation when a show gets reaired or a show gets sold or a movie gets aired. That’s when we get a little bit of that pie. And the amount of the pie that we’re getting in streaming is almost nonexistent.
The streaming companies who are actually negotiating are Hulu, Peacock, HBO, Paramount, Disney, Apple TV, Netflix and Amazon are the big ones.
Last year, 8 Hollywood CEOs made nearly $800 million, yet pay for TV writers has fallen by 23 percent over the last 10 years. I stand with the nearly 12,000 @WGAWest writers on strike for a fair contract.
Let this strike be instructive for the American working class that it began on May 1…International Workers' Day.
Fire them all!!!
At least late nigh shows can be gone, makes this worth while for sure
Why are news casts and morning talk shows not affected by this strike? They have writers and use scripted material.
I'd rather be plagiarized by AI robot than Disney twat.
Trump is RIGHT again, right Jimmy?! 😂
Good
The best thing to happen for the world would be for this Mockingbird industry to be erased from all of humanity.
AWWW…I'm super sad that they can make more terrible movies and repeats of the same crap except making the lead characters black, gay, trans, or female..Ooo no!! I'm super sad!!😆😅🤣
That glimpse of Guardians 3 just convinced me it’s gonna be as bad as Love and Thunder 😓🤦🏼♂️
I heard the Writers Guild hasn't changed for theM Since 1979.
Maybe That's because thE writing hasn't changed either.😂
The same boring material.
just different FACES 🚫
Maybe we NEED
New writer's👈🏼😁👍🏼
I'm Ready! & Available 👍🏼
I'll take the wages they're refusing.
Good bring in some new conseritive writers! Tired of the WOKE Progressive crap on TV anyways!
Yea now get rid of these idiot anchors.
Good!!!! Burn pedowood down
AI shook many industries…
NO ONE CARES, HOLLYWOOD IS DEAD!!
SEE THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES…BE READY