The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. It took 146 days to get there. And part of me, having seen what Business Affairs can do to an agreement and how much red pen it takes to get a contract to actually resemble what was agreed to verbally, I’m pretty sure it will take more days to hammer out “contract speak” in the actual Minimum Basic Agreement. But. We are there.
Writers have won.
It sounds like a real win too. Not the lackluster win of 2008. A real win in 2023. Yay!
Today marks Day 100 of the WGA writers’ strike. I don’t have anything pithy to say about that. I just thought the “milestone” should be marked.
So SAG-AFTRA has joined the picket lines. There are only roughly 11,000 writers. There are roughly 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members. The strike lines just got much bigger. I’m sort of existential-crises-brain-frozen right now watching the general fuckery of the AMPTP and studios during the strike. But Trae Crowder isn’t. Yay! Watch.
Gee, if the idea — Behind contract negotiations is to split a union in two, the AMPTP has what it wants. The Screen Actors Guild sent out its strike authorization ballot and now there are two growing sides to the controversy over whether to authorize the board to initiate a strike. Big power players […]
I do not know — What other people do facing impending starvation. I know what I do. I order groceries. It is a very odd thing. Most of the time I do not eat a lot. When I am worried about cash flow? I eat like a ninja. So. A strike is possibly coming? […]
It is SAG Monday. This is the day Screen Actor’s Guild [SAG] sends out its strike authorization ballot and announces the strike authorization time table. Actors have been working for half a year without a new contract while SAG tried to negotiate with AMPTP and SAG tried pretty hard but appaently AMPTP is being […]
Speaking of Stalin — The AMPTP is now dicking the actors around. [How, um, out of character.] AMPTP Dicks Actors Around. Hopefully SAG [that is the actors’ primary union] can hold steady, but if AMPTP [that is the association of motion picture and television producers which really means the iron clad fist of a […]
Dear Blonde Assassin — If the rumors are true, and the WGA strike is nearly over, then we should expect a return of pseudo-quality to the airwaves soon. What three current shows would you put at the top of your assassination list? [Personally, I’d axe a few reality shows and anything that gets compared […]
Well my best birthday present — Besides the gold, diamonds, and large quantities of cash — The strike is over. Yay! Every writer in town has been unable to accept writing work since November 5, 2007. And that goes on down the line, if the writers are not working, no one else […]
Okay definitely TV but — Not really “late.” “Late” for me and “late” for other people is very different. But I have been watching “late night” David Letterman [wow, someone else owns David Letterman dot com who is just dotty you should really fix that Uncle Dave] and Craig Ferguson [ditto for you Scottish […]