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SUNDAY UPDATE: The WGA just announced tonight that WGA members and union supporters will bring their children to walk the picket lines Monday at various locations through the Los Angeles area in support of writers on strike against studios and networks.
Previous: I’m told the WGA is planning a Bring-A-Star-To-Picket-With-You event this Tuesday that’s supposed to be centered at Universal Studios at noon. There’s also supposed to be a Bring-Your-Kids event underway Monday on all the picket lines since it’s a school holiday, Veterans Day. C’mon, producers, let’s see you schedule media events and photo opps as well. Wait, here’s an even better idea: both sides get back to the negotiating table. That’s a picture we’d all like to see.
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I think those who take their ire out on the writers are misguided. We are the few Americans workers out there who operate in a purely “free enterprise” system. We aren’t great in numbers but we provide the number one American export. Unlike IATSI members, we don’t show up for work– we create the work. And, if we don’t create material other people respond to with investment dollars– we don’t get rehired. With us, the laws of authorship apply. When someone invents the squeegee, they make money along with the manucfacturer and the distributer because their invention attracts customers. If Matt Groening creates “The Simpsons” and he and his writers generate multi-millions in profits and products– should they be excluded from a minor percentage share of the business they generated? Like the squeegee inventor shouldn’t his children and even his children’s children enjoy a percentage of profits generated by his invention? Isn’t that the American way? Writers are creative gamblers. If we win we can win big. If we lose, we don’t work. We don’t have a chance of earning residuals unless our product has been produced and people are watching. We don’t profit if the studios don’t profit. This strike is about ownership, fair compensation and not being robbed! This strike is about the once important American value of competition, Free Enterprise and profitting because of vision, audacity and inventiveness.
Large corporationshave the power and the fat pockets to destroy American innovation and can-do spirit. We writers proudly are standing up for those values. Please stand with us!
What about the production assistants who work in entertainment who aren’t even allowed to form a union? No one cares about them. They make about $400 a week, many without health benefits. Why don’t the unions help out production assistants and help them make a little better money and for them to have health benefits. I was a production assistant for 5 years and I struggled to survive. Yes the corporations need to spread the wealth, but actors, writers, and directors are not the only ones who deserve more money. I support the writer’s strike, but I just wish the writer’s supported everyone else in this business.
Dibs on Todd Bridges.
I swear to God I saw him out there today!