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Post by Garak Nephew on Sept 11, 2023 13:46:32 GMT
On this podcast episode the dudes from Trek Geeks (a Trek network of podcasts) interview John Billingsley, Natalia Castellanos and Jonathan Del Arco on how they are creatively holding the line of the strike. They are organizing themed picket lines to draw interest to the strike. Castellanos goes deep on the politics and the economics of the strike and remains hopeful that, though the struggle is hard, companies will ran out of new material eventually and the share holders would put pressure on the executives to make a deal. Billingsley is such a good guy! Sharp, funny, engage. What's not to love about this guy!
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Post by Prometheus59650 on Sept 11, 2023 16:54:46 GMT
Billingsly is a man among men; warm, affable, genuinely kind. I don't think I've ever heard him so much as raise his voice at any convention I've attended.
As for the strike. let me qualify by saying that I fully support the strike and the AMPTP could pay off every demand and they'd barely feel it. But they won't because that's just how it works. No side will absolutely give in.
But I think the WGA has an issue, (and I 100% could be misreading this, so, someone in the know can correct me) and that issue is one of priorities. As I see it, there are two hills in this worth dying on:
AI-- If AI is allowed to gain a foothold, it's over. Those first examples of what it will produce will probably be laughable...but technology improves.
Residuals-- A new schedule has to be created because it's simply not fair that streamers have to pay nothing to producers after a show ends up with tens of millions of minutes, or more, watched.
My perception is that the WGA sees everything they're striking for at the same level of importance...that they are all hills worth dying on.
When everything is the same degree of "critically important," nothing is important.
At this point, I'm hearing rumblings that the AMPTP is willing to let this drag until Spring.
We'll see.
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Post by scenario on Sept 13, 2023 3:42:51 GMT
A lot of these issues have been around for years and different issues are important to different people. The pay structure must change but I'm not sure how. The structure for years was that actors were paid a reasonable amount for the actual job and then more when its repeated in syndication. But streaming doesn't sell show. If you tried to do that with streaming, only the most popular shows would stay for any length of time.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Sept 22, 2023 0:29:36 GMT
Billingsly is a man among men; warm, affable, genuinely kind. I don't think I've ever heard him so much as raise his voice at any convention I've attended. As for the strike. let me qualify by saying that I fully support the strike and the AMPTP could pay off every demand and they'd barely feel it. But they won't because that's just how it works. No side will absolutely give in. But I think the WGA has an issue, (and I 100% could be misreading this, so, someone in the know can correct me) and that issue is one of priorities. As I see it, there are two hills in this worth dying on: AI-- If AI is allowed to gain a foothold, it's over. Those first examples of what it will produce will probably be laughable...but technology improves. Residuals-- A new schedule has to be created because it's simply not fair that streamers have to pay nothing to producers after a show ends up with tens of millions of minutes, or more, watched. My perception is that the WGA sees everything they're striking for at the same level of importance...that they are all hills worth dying on. When everything is the same degree of "critically important," nothing is important. At this point, I'm hearing rumblings that the AMPTP is willing to let this drag until Spring. We'll see. I can't agree more. Billingsley even invited my wife and I to his home back in 2016 for a "Flip My District" party; we couldn't make it, sadly, but he gave me his email and followed through. We made a donation to the cause, at the very least (it was successful, too). He's a true mensch.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Nov 9, 2023 5:03:28 GMT
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Post by Prometheus59650 on Nov 9, 2023 17:45:41 GMT
The biggest problem in the aftermath is all the below-the-line workers now crushed underfoot because they haven't worked in 6 months.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Nov 23, 2023 2:05:04 GMT
The biggest problem in the aftermath is all the below-the-line workers now crushed underfoot because they haven't worked in 6 months. Time for their strike now.
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Post by Prometheus59650 on Nov 23, 2023 4:14:41 GMT
The biggest problem in the aftermath is all the below-the-line workers now crushed underfoot because they haven't worked in 6 months. Time for their strike now. IATSE's strike comes next summer.
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