I am legit penniless and moving after a full decade in the industry, because the bougiest union thought they deserved to be upper class rather than middle class. I actually hate these people and their status driven desires to own homes in the nicest neighborhoods of NY and CA. To have their kids in private school with the producers kids. O it’s hard in Cobble Hill?

The writers strike ruined the industry and moved so much work to Canada, England, and Korea. I have no skills outside film production and I am going from middle class to homeless for the worst people who write Blue Bloods and Jimmy Fallon jokes. I fucking hate writers and they are all pieces of shit.

Craft unionism is not bringing about socialism, it’s bringing about different hierarchies and desires between jobs. The Wobblies were right about everything. I fucking hate you writers. You are closer to the producers than just about anyone on set. You are fucking country club shits. I hope you all get stuck writing cop shows forever you fucking trash

  • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    And to anyone that says blame the producers. No, the Writers are morons. They do not control any industry, capital, or production, they do not even control their scripts. They essentially are America putting sanctions on Russia, and Russia just moving its economy towards Asia.

    WGA are not longshoreman, they write fucking jokes and parts of scripts collaboratively in a room that are then owned by the production company. The moment they pulled out of doing this, producers just moved to other countries, or used old scripts and kept chugging along.

    If IATSE, or Teamsters went on strike, production would actually come to a full stop. WGA just made things slowdown and allowed the AMPTP to plan out how they were gonna fuck all the other unions long term and cut cost. Penguin, Hpuse of Dragon, Dune, all got made during the strike. The money makers for the studios. These stupid fucks just got romantic and lib about what unions can do.

    Say whatever you want, but these people are not my class, these people are not thinking about the proletariat, these people do not understand where there is actually power in a union. They are worthless

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      I think the clearest indication of how weak the left is in the US is the incredibly superficial understanding of the labor movement in this country and the contradictions within it. Just total ignorance of how the big unions constantly fight each other, fuck each other over, and screw over the broader working class, oftentimes for the pettiest nonsense. They're all more than happy to sell out the most vulnerable and isolated workers if it means a slightly quicker deal with bosses and the collection of dues money.

      This doesn't even touch on the fact that a lot of these unions are full of white collar workers that we would probably condemn individually as social fascists but then they go on strike and we celebrate it for some reason.

      I'm sorry you got screwed by this. I hope you can find decent work somewhere soon.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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      1 month ago

      So what you’re saying is that writers are the waiters of the film industry…

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      1 month ago

      Hotd was British, they couldn’t shut down production. I agree with you on the waivers, but they are your class, whether you like them or not

      No, the Writers are morons. They do not control any industry, capital, or production, they do not even control their scripts.

      Doesn’t this make the production-side argument stronger rather than weaker?