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Instead of negotiating in good faith, it seems studios, and their anti-union allies are using scare tactics and outright lies to try to trick SAG-AFTRA members into pressing their leaders to take a bad deal.
Don’t confuse their fiction with facts:🧵
Don’t confuse their fiction with facts:🧵
FICTION:
“Money from the new streaming percentage would go to the Union, not the members.”
FACTS:
This is a b.s. scare tactic. *All* residuals go to the union, which processes them and sends you checks. Been this way for decades. This is nothing new and nothing to be afraid of.
“Money from the new streaming percentage would go to the Union, not the members.”
FACTS:
This is a b.s. scare tactic. *All* residuals go to the union, which processes them and sends you checks. Been this way for decades. This is nothing new and nothing to be afraid of.
FICTION:
“If this doesn’t get resolved ASAP, shows will be canceled!”
FACTS:
The CEOs have foolishly let this drag on so long that the pipeline of content is running dry. You think they’re not gonna refill it? That the people who love a reboot won’t bring back shuttered shows?
“If this doesn’t get resolved ASAP, shows will be canceled!”
FACTS:
The CEOs have foolishly let this drag on so long that the pipeline of content is running dry. You think they’re not gonna refill it? That the people who love a reboot won’t bring back shuttered shows?
FICTION:
“Everyone is suffering because actors are being so selfish!”
FACTS:
CEOs could end the strike today by negotiating a fair deal that their companies — which make $30B/year in profits — can easily afford.
Someone’s being selfish here, but it ain’t the actors.
“Everyone is suffering because actors are being so selfish!”
FACTS:
CEOs could end the strike today by negotiating a fair deal that their companies — which make $30B/year in profits — can easily afford.
Someone’s being selfish here, but it ain’t the actors.
FICTION:
“Holding out is only hurting IATSE & Teamster crew members!”
FACTS:
The CEOs refusal to make a deal is hurting everyone. But if SAG takes a bad deal, that will only embolden CEOs to play hardball with IATSE & Teamsters next year and force them on strike, too.
“Holding out is only hurting IATSE & Teamster crew members!”
FACTS:
The CEOs refusal to make a deal is hurting everyone. But if SAG takes a bad deal, that will only embolden CEOs to play hardball with IATSE & Teamsters next year and force them on strike, too.
FICTION:
“Why is SAG-AFTRA dragging this out?”
FACTS:
We’re all desperate to get back to work, but SAG’s not the hold up. They extended 12 days in July trying to make a deal. They’ve been ready to talk for months. CEOs have stalled 100+ days for a deal they could’ve made Day 1.
“Why is SAG-AFTRA dragging this out?”
FACTS:
We’re all desperate to get back to work, but SAG’s not the hold up. They extended 12 days in July trying to make a deal. They’ve been ready to talk for months. CEOs have stalled 100+ days for a deal they could’ve made Day 1.
These are just a few of the lies studios are spreading to try to avoid paying their workers fairly. And they have help. Molly Levinson’s unionbusting PR firm is responsible for a ton of misinformation — and the bots harassing union members on Twitter. therevolvingdoorproject.org/hollywood-boss…
The studios and streamers are spreading all these lies, losing all this money, and wasting all this time for one reason:
They think they can fool you.
They’re hoping that their lies will work, that your union will break, and that they can pay you less or replace you with AI.
They think they can fool you.
They’re hoping that their lies will work, that your union will break, and that they can pay you less or replace you with AI.
Don’t let the lies confuse you. Instead, let them make you mad.
Mad that they think they can trick you.
Mad that they’d rather play games than pay you what you’re worth.
And use that anger to fight.
One day longer.
One day stronger.
For as long as it takes.
#SAGAFTRAStrong
Mad that they think they can trick you.
Mad that they’d rather play games than pay you what you’re worth.
And use that anger to fight.
One day longer.
One day stronger.
For as long as it takes.
#SAGAFTRAStrong
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