The Board of Directors of the @WGAwest and the Council of the @WGAeast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.— Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) May 2, 2023
I don't have a good feeling about this, and I don't know if the WGA has any more leverage today then they did in 2007. For a lot of reasons they probably have less. The studios likely have larger pools of scab labor, Americans have grown much more tolerant of imported subbed/dubbed (as opposed to remade) series, and the streaming giants have shifted to rotational models so they can keep their libraries "fresh" by rotating old shows in and out.
Instead of not writing, they should exclusively write the most chaotic possible communist agitprop. People will remember that time Jimmy Kimmel just sat there reading "Inventing Reality" while names, addresses, and photos of media CEOs and shareholders scrolled in the background and be much more willing to negotiate in the future.
I don't have a good feeling about this, and I don't know if the WGA has any more leverage today then they did in 2007. For a lot of reasons they probably have less. The studios likely have larger pools of scab labor, Americans have grown much more tolerant of imported subbed/dubbed (as opposed to remade) series, and the streaming giants have shifted to rotational models so they can keep their libraries "fresh" by rotating old shows in and out.
Instead of not writing, they should exclusively write the most chaotic possible communist agitprop. People will remember that time Jimmy Kimmel just sat there reading "Inventing Reality" while names, addresses, and photos of media CEOs and shareholders scrolled in the background and be much more willing to negotiate in the future.