Writer Gary Phillips traces the history of the Writers Guild, the militancy of Hollywood unions, beginning with the writers, the difference between the writers and actors, and why the actors remain on strike.
Top negotiators for the writers guild believe the studios’ interests “are no longer sufficiently aligned to allow them to easily negotiate together”
America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.
While guild members would love to get back to work, the one thing they’re not going to do after months on the picket lines, whatever the studio’s strategic game plan when the strike began, is roll over and play dead.
Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent. Many of the people who actually make the movies and television shows we love so much — whose hard work creates stories, sound stages, spectacular costumes, and so much more — are barely scraping by.
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne
These two unions are taking the threats of AI seriously — and the rest of us should, too. Now’s the time to form a union with your coworkers, and discuss what protections you’ll need to face this moment.
Jeopardy! is not like other game shows. According to the WGA, “Jeopardy is produced by a struck company...Anyone participating in a Jeopardy production would be crossing a picket line comprised of Jeopardy writers who wrote the clues.”
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