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Writers are still angry.
Don’t mistake our efforts to make the best of our time on the picket lines for joy or complacency.
It is BULLSHIT that studios are making us do this just to be paid fairly for creating a product that brings in BILLIONS. 🧵#WGAStrong
Don’t mistake our efforts to make the best of our time on the picket lines for joy or complacency.
It is BULLSHIT that studios are making us do this just to be paid fairly for creating a product that brings in BILLIONS. 🧵#WGAStrong
Writers are still angry about streaming residuals.
We are still angry about endless producer passes and free work in features.
We are still angry that there are *no minimums* for comedy/variety shows on streaming.
We are still angry about endless producer passes and free work in features.
We are still angry that there are *no minimums* for comedy/variety shows on streaming.
Writers are still angry about mini-rooms.
We are still angry about being denied a 2nd step on feature deals.
We are still angry about having to repeat staff writer over and over again because of made-up “policies” designed to grind the least powerful among us.
We are still angry about being denied a 2nd step on feature deals.
We are still angry about having to repeat staff writer over and over again because of made-up “policies” designed to grind the least powerful among us.
Writers are still angry that studios refused to discuss viewership-based residuals in streaming, that they are unwilling to let writers participate in the success of the hits we create — hits that bring them millions of paying subscribers.
Writers are still angry that studios rejected our proposal and refused to counter on residuals for ad-supported streaming — when we all know that’s where the business is going.
Writers are still angry that the studios refused to negotiate on AI — and made clear that they “might want to use it someday.”
We are still angry their only offer on this disruptive new technology was a few toothless “meetings” to discuss “new developments in technology.”
We are still angry their only offer on this disruptive new technology was a few toothless “meetings” to discuss “new developments in technology.”
Writers are still angry that studios rejected our proposals and refused to counter on minimum TV staff size — making it clear that their goal is to slash writing budgets to the bone and continue amortizing showrunners down to scale.
Writers are still angry that studios refused to even discuss paying *both* members of a writing team a full share of pension & health contributions as if they were two separate people — which they obviously fucking are.
Writers are still angry that none of this had to happen.
If studios agreed to every single one of our demands, it would cost them each less than 0.25% of their annual revenues. Instead, they’re costing us, our fellow workers, themselves, and their shareholders billions.
If studios agreed to every single one of our demands, it would cost them each less than 0.25% of their annual revenues. Instead, they’re costing us, our fellow workers, themselves, and their shareholders billions.
And writers are still angry that studios refuse to sit back down at the bargaining table and work to make a deal, choosing instead to hide behind paper-thin lies that they can only negotiate with one union at a time — as if no one in the AMPTP can multi-task.
So yes, we’re laughing and singing and dancing and telling jokes on the picket lines to keep our spirits up.
Because writers are still angry.
Because writers are still angry.
We’re doing all those things to cope with our outrage that the people who employ us — who cannot make the only product they sell without us — think so little of us that they force us to march back and forth for months just to get some small fair share of the value we create.
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