Following the lead of David Letterman's Late Show scribes, the entire writing staff of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson will donate a percentage of their salaries to the WGA Strike Fund and the Actors Fund every month until the strike ends, I'm told today. "But we’ll do so an hour later and with less fanfare, mainly because we don’t have a band.” Letterman's and Ferguson's writing staffs are the only striking scribes the only strikers thus far allowed by the WGA to go back to work because of an interim agreement signed by Dave's production company Worldwide Pants, which owns both The Late Show and the Late Late Show. (See my previous, Letterman Scribes To Fatten Strike Fund.)
Now Ferguson Scribes Fatten Strike Fund
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That’s great. Will other writers help out like that?
And exactly what are they doing for the thousands of other related union crafts workers whose lives have been permanently damaged?
Those “lesser people” as the WGA likes to call us?
You know, the folk who actually MAKE the stuff writers are only able to dream up because we exist?
THe ones for whom you refuse to settle because you pretend to want to be able to be in sympathy with?
Gee Thanks, let me know where i can pick up my rent check.
To: IATSE Lesser person
From the Actor’s Fund website’s FAQ
Q. Does The Actors Fund only serve actors?
A. The Actors Fund supports all entertainment professionals – designers, writers, sound technicians, dancers, administrators, directors, film editors, stagehands, electricians – as well as actors. The organization assists performers and those behind the scenes including creative professionals, technical and crafts professionals and support staff in theatre, film and the performing arts.
“THe ones for whom you refuse to settle because you pretend to want to be able to be in sympathy with?”
Right, and if IATSE went on strike and writers whined, “I don’t care about you! I don’t care about why you’re on strike, go to hell, I love the AMPTP and I agree with all the horrible untrue things they’ve said about you, hell, I repeat them, you’re selfish and greedy, and moreover, you owe me, I don’t care what happens to you, just let them screw you because you should be thinking about me! Also, what are you doing for me while you’re on strike?” that’d go over great, right? The response would be, yes, great point, we’ll work for free if only we can help you, and not, man, what ignorant, selfish, entitled pricks those writers are, right? AMPTP, please hire pretend IATSE members who at least make some effort to make sense. (Hint: they’re union members, so spouting “union hater, symaothy strikes suck and are phony” talking points is a bit out of character unless they’re pretending to be Tom Short.)
I know non-WGA industry people who think the timing of the strike is weird and wonder if the WGA leaders are somehow conspiring with the AMTP to get the writers fired. But the union/near union people I know on the East Coast seem to think that the writers’ fundamental demand — that they ought to get fair compensation for Web work — is a reasonable one, and they seem to think that Short is full of it.
My guess is that, whatever’s going on at the Short/Winship/Verrone level, a lot of the alleged IATSE/WGA bad blood at the working stiff level is a bunch of malarkey.
it is nice