CRHS, Swarthmore College, Loyola Law School, Writers Guild of America, West. Writer & EP of BLOOD OF ZEUS. Proud Greek American 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 and ND Football Fan 🍀
An anonymous exec and manager told @MattBelloni that we could've gotten everything we asked for without a strike if we had simply asked nicely. I dare these two morons to come forward and identify themselves, because this is the stupidest fucking thing I've heard all year.
No picketing today so I had meme time this morning! Thank you negcom @WGAWest & @WGAEast for your hard work. Thank you strike captains. Thank you fellow union members for holding strong with us. Thank you ppl who honked. Thank you snack supporters. @sagaftra you're next...!
*This* is the whole pie: the actual and estimated totals of each major union and guild contract measured against studio revenues over the three-year term of the last WGA deal. The “slices” they want us to fight over are so small, I couldn’t even get them to show up in Excel.
SAG LA Vice President Michelle Hurd explains that “you know those actors when you go ‘oh there’s that guy from that show’, you don’t necessarily know their names… those actors are working class actors who are literally working paycheck to paycheck.”
MIchelle Hurd
While joining the picket line in #NYC #SAG LA Vice President @itsMichelleHurd says actors are literally working "Paycheck to paycheck" #ActorsStrike.
The truth?
What SAG is about to do - walking out - will one day be viewed, correctly, as the moment that actors SAVED our business.
It was heading for a cliff by strangling the very people who make it flourish. WORKERS. That had to be fixed.
Now it will be.
Love that this interview was given at the Sun Valley Conference of billionaires where they all flew in on their private jets. Yeah, we're the unreasonable ones for demanding fair compensation for our work. #WGAStrong#SAGAFTRAstrong#Solidarityvariety.com/2023/tv/news/bob…
When you’ve conditioned writers to have to wait 6-8 months for BA to close then 3 MORE months to see a penny, you think 5 months is scary? Luv, that’s light work! 5 months is only scary to YOU you soft salaried tits.
This is what this strike is all about. Do all the computers have to be writers? Can’t they focus on getting the plastic bottles out of the ocean, first? All kidding aside, the stories we share shape us & makes us who we are. Do we want to entrust that to computers? #WGA#Strike
In 2006 my brother & I sold our "first" spec to Universal. It got us into the #WGA & was a four step deal. Ten years later Oscar nominated legends like @BillyRay5229 are signing up for 1 step deals. This is one of the many reasons we're on strike. #WritersStrike2023
BREAKING: Over 70% of Americans, including 63% of Trump voters, support the writers' strike.
A new poll we commissioned from Blue Rose Research shows overwhelming support for the WGA strike that cuts across race, age, gender, and even political ideology.
perfectunion.us/poll-the-pub…
The WGA has never wanted to strike, but here's what our predecessors and we achieved when we had to:
1953 -- 13 weeks. First TV RESIDUALS
1960 -- 22 weeks. First FEATURE RESIDUALS, independent PENSION, HEALTH INSURANCE, 4% TV residuals