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Today shareholders voiced their disapproval of @netflix’s outlandish exec pay totaling over $166 million for 2022. 1/6
This excessive sum, paid to just a handful of execs, could pay for Netflix’s annual share of all of WGA’s proposed improvements for writers—twice over. 2/6
Instead, this money paid the top Netflix execs who are creating risk for the company and shareholders by not offering writers a fair deal. 3/6
It is rare that these shareholder proposals fail—less than 4% executive compensation shareholder proposals failed in 2022. It’s clear that investors don't believe this management team is worth $160+ million a year. 4/6
Netflix’s board needs to spend less time thinking up ways to pay its executive team more money and instead address the writers' strike that is delaying major shows like #StrangerThings. 5/6
It’s time for Netflix to pay writers fairly for the valuable content they create. #WGAstrong #WGAstrike 6/6 finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-s…

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May 20
Did you hear about #upfronts this week? 1/6
Jon Steinlauf, chief of @wbd US ad sales: “What you’re about to see is not exactly the show we expected to do today.” 2/6
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May 4
Just a little update from @paramountplus' quarterly earnings call today... 1/7
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May 2
The Board of Directors of the @WGAWest and the Council of the @WGAEast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.
The decision was made following six weeks of negotiating with @netflix, @amazon, @Apple, @Disney, @wbd, @NBCUniversal, @paramountplus and @Sony under the umbrella of the AMPTP.
Though our Negotiating Committee began this process intent on making a fair deal, the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing.
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Mar 22
The WGA’s proposal to regulate use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies ensures the Companies can’t use AI to undermine writers’ working standards including compensation, residuals, separated rights and credits. #WGAStrong 🧵1/7
AI can’t be used as source material, to create MBA-covered writing or rewrite MBA-covered work, and AI-generated text cannot be considered in determining writing credits. 2/7
Our proposal is that writers may not be assigned AI-generated material to adapt, nor may AI software generate covered literary material. 3/7
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