Non-union writers, actors, and crew do exist, but they're not the kinds of people who have ever worked on A-tier, Disney level type productions. They do low budget arthouse and indie stuff.
A lot of these companies could choose to scab pretty easily, but it wouldn't be good productions.
That’s a bandaid solution, at best. The amount of content the industry would need to generate with non-union labor would be so massive that even if you tried, you’d only be able to replace a fraction of the demand, and the impact on quality would do untold amounts of damage to brand perception.
Using scab labor is a potential solution for productions that are already partly-finished (although even that’s questionable) or to fill gaps in a release schedule, but it’s unrealistic as anything but a way to buy time and leverage in the negotiation process (which isn’t nothing).
Non-union writers, actors, and crew do exist, but they're not the kinds of people who have ever worked on A-tier, Disney level type productions. They do low budget arthouse and indie stuff.
A lot of these companies could choose to scab pretty easily, but it wouldn't be good productions.
That’s a bandaid solution, at best. The amount of content the industry would need to generate with non-union labor would be so massive that even if you tried, you’d only be able to replace a fraction of the demand, and the impact on quality would do untold amounts of damage to brand perception.
Using scab labor is a potential solution for productions that are already partly-finished (although even that’s questionable) or to fill gaps in a release schedule, but it’s unrealistic as anything but a way to buy time and leverage in the negotiation process (which isn’t nothing).