The guild’s insistence in achieving a minimum guaranteed staff level for episodic TV was considered an extreme long-shot when the contract discussions began in March.
They achieved a new-model streaming residual formula that should help fellow striking union SAG-AFTRA in its quest to achieve a revenue-based residual. The WGA’s formula amounts to a bonus system based on pre-determined, high-bar performance benchmarks for individual titles. But it’s nonetheless more than industry dealmakers predicted the guild would secure when the first round of WGA-AMPTP talks began in earnest last spring.
The nitty-gritty details of language around the use of generative AI in content production was one of the last items that the sides worked on before closing the pact.
They did it.
Solidarity works.
Unions are our only tool against capitalistic greed.
Doomed by the narrative but not because of the story itself, doomed by the narrative because it isn’t about you, doomed to obscurity, doomed because the narrative forgot you and you’re doomed to burn your hands on the spotlight as you try to drag it onto yourself
