A WGA Strike Is a Repeat No One Wants to Watch
David Bloom
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David Bloom
Journalist, host, consultant covering the collision of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
By David Bloom
Oof! So the Writers Guild contract negotiators sent an email last night to members asking for a strike authorization vote. It may be saber rattling to gain at least some minimal leverage at a time when the union has relatively little.
But a decade after the last WGA strike, in my latest TVRev.com piece, I look at why union members may be hurting despite a bounteous era for TV, and why a strike would still be a bad idea for the entire town as it goes through the digital transition.
Read the whole thing here: https://tvrev.com/wga-contract-negotiations-strike/
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7 年What's absurd is none of the true writer pain points are even addressed by this, not even by the WGA. The profit participation schemes, meaning rackets, put in place under the guise of "Hollywood accounting" are criminally scandalous and yet continue to be completely ignored by the entire industry... writers included. We live in a world where Star Wars and Harry Potter are claimed to be financial failures and their net profit participants aren't owed any money. How insane is that? How insane is it that an ENTIRE INDUSTRY goes along with that? The WGA is ready to strike for all manner of things, but that doesn't even make the list? It's so well accepted that net points are meaningless, no one even tries to fight it any more, yet they're the de facto standard of every WGA contract. The whole thing is a sham.