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Amy Thurlow
@athurlow
she/her tv writer for hire Member of WGAW and IATSE.
Sep 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Word of caution with any headline saying when the strike will end. Even if the studios make a much better offer that offer still has to be approved by the membership. There are still a few ways the studios could try to break our spirits. Mini 🧵. They have already started to wave around an Oct 1 hard deadline — as we saw with the “the strikes have to end/ will end by Labor Day” that was some BS cooked up to get peoples’ hopes up. The Oct 1 deadline is also somewhat arbitrary — their 2024 schedules are already a mess.
Aug 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This proposal (that very much shouldn’t have been released under media blackout) is wild to me for so many reasons. Here’s why it is a giant nothing burger of an offer. 🧵 Image The Showrunner “may select” aka it is the Showrunner’s choice. This may seem like an out for SRs that don’t want to be “forced” to hire but really it’s a loophole. The studio can just suggest that if the SR makes this “choice” will pay for it some other way.
Jun 16, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
🧵🧵🧵Time. Here’s why the WGA Strike has a lot to do with IATSE. We have seen already how negotiations and labor as a whole is inter connected. The AMPTP’s strategy here is multi-pronged. In 2021 when IATSE came to the brink of a strike, it took the AMPTP by surprise. They didn’t realize just how angry the crews were and how ready they were to strike. Crew stories hit the media in force and exposed the employers for their workplace abuses.
Apr 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Certain streaming platforms have kept wages down for literally 99% of the people who work on their shows by cancelling them after 1-2 seasons. How do you earn a promotion or wage increase if you only work 1-2 seasons? You don't. That's by design. Actors who become break out stars are told that if they get paid what they're actually worth in S3/4, that the network will just cancel the show. Imagine having to decide whether you should be paid for your work or if an entire show and all the jobs with it should disappear?
Jun 16, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Some of you may be aware that the IA and AMPTP are resuming negotiations July 6th. In light of this I'd like to share a THREAD about what we are working to get the AMPTP to acknowledge. #IASolidarity #PayUpHollywood #Local871 871 Represents a variety of crafts from Writers Assistant and Script Coordinator to Script Supervisors, APOCs, Art Department Coordinators and even Teleprompters. We are mostly female and our #ReelEquity study found we are paid much less than men comparable crafts.