Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike after nearly 150 days
Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike after nearly 150 days
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.
Hollywood scribes initiated a work stoppage in early May as negotiations broke down with studios including Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.
The WGA and AMPTP are still drafting the final contract language.
TLDR: "Television and film writers sought protections against the use of artificial intelligence, in addition to increases in compensation for streamed content.
The WGA did not disclose what provisions ultimately made it into the preliminary contract, but told union members that “this deal is exceptional – with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership.””
I'm sorry. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't trust undisclosed terms.
It's how all union negotiations work, the membership will see it once it meets all the approvals from the election committee and boards and such. It's to keep the employer from picking away at the membership by offering one concession here or one there, and then letting the rabble be like "well actually that one point is pretty good, maybe we should just agree now!"
Now that said, I'm also going to wait before I'm convinced the strike is over. I'm pretty confident the agreement they are about to finalize and eventually present to membership is a good one, as the current mood among workers from all sectors is to stop the bullshit and get what they want. I don't think the membership will vote for this contract unless it's like 90% of what they asked for the first time. And that's good.
I say this as a film carpenter who has been working on and off and who expects to be fully unemployed by the end of this week, regardless of if this agreement gets ratified. We need the actors back too before we can continue working.
Yep, our union promised us great gains and it turns out we went on strike to gain nothing and people still voted for it.
Then you get to wait
The sad part is that they could have gotten everything and they'd still have less workers rights than in other developed countries.