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genericnamego · 2 years

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People be mad that movies are getting ‘woke’ having more PoC background characters when really they should be mad that Disney is moving all their projects to Atlanta, Georgia, USA—where they don’t have an actors union and exploitation is rampant.

#sorry for the run on sentence #watching #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #Disney #Atlanta #Georgia #USA #unions #actors #filming #pro-unions #better working conditions for all #brain thought while watching this movie #I hate Disney #representation for all #Disney you have the money #pay your workers #cheapskates

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animentality · 2 months

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#twitter #labor rights #union #pro union #union strong #union solidarity #pensions #anti capitalism

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way-too-fine · 9 months

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THE NANNY – s2e13: THE STRIKE (1994)

Congratulations to Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA Union President, for standing in solidarity with the WGA and for her incredible dedication to ensuring fair treatment and better working conditions for all. Never forget that Fran has always been pro-union!

#THAT'S MY PRESIDENT #FRAN DRESCHER #fran fine #fran has always been pro union #sag strike #wga solidarity #sag aftra #thenannyedit #90stv #tv: the nanny #*s2e11 #the strike #I LOVE HER YOUR HONOR

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gay-jewish-bucky · 8 months

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i miss "filler" episodes

i miss when television seasons were longer

i miss seeing character development that made their arcs make sense

i miss shows flowing at a natural pace instead of constantly being bombarded with high stakes conflicts

i miss seeing my fave characters exist in situations that aren't essential to the plot

i miss when ceos didn't cut the amount of episodes in half to maximize profit and minimize how much they have to pay to the people (actors, writers, editors, vfx, crew, hair & makeup artists, costumers and many more) who's blood sweat and tears make them rich

#sag #sag aftra #aftra #sag strike #sag aftra strike #aftra strike #sag strong #sag aftra strong #pro union #actors strike #wga strike #wga strong #writers strike

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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"The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties finalized the framework of the deal Sunday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels.

“We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language,” the guild told members this evening in a release, which came just after sunset and the start of the Yom Kippur holiday that many had seen deadline to wrap up deal after five days of long negotiations...

Despite today’s welcome news, it still will take a few days for the strike to be officially over as the WGA West and WGA East proceed with their ratification process. During the WGA’s last strike in 2007-08, a tentative agreement was reached on the 96th day and it wasn’t over until the 100th...

All attention will now turn to ratifying the WGA deal and getting SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP back to the bargaining table to work out a deal to end the actors’ strike, which has now been going on for 70 days.

Details of the WGA’s tentative agreement haven’t been released yet but will be revealed by the guild in advance of the membership ratification votes. Pay raises and streaming residuals have been key issues for the guild, along with AI and writers room staffing levels."

-via Deadline, September 24, 2023

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acid-smoke · 7 months

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I am suddenly okay-ish with living in historic times

#pro union #support unions #labor unions #uaw #uaw strike #pay your fucking employees

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8one6 · 9 months

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#pro union #wga strike #sag aftra #sag strike #ron perlman #fuck the studios

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referencees · 7 months

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It makes me so mad that studios are now trying to go the ‘well what about our OTHER workers🥺🥺🥺. What happens when they can’t feed themselves or lose everything because of these mean mean unions🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺’ route.

Like……shut up lmao. YOU’RE the reason no one is making money. YOU’RE the reason both striking and non-striking workers in the entertainment industry struggle to survive.

And it makes me even more angry that all it took was 2 weeks of work from the Levinson group for people to start to turn on SAG and the WGA. I see people all over the place saying that all the talk show hosts that are continuing their shows have a point, and maybe the unions ARE selfish.

You know what’s really behind all these people struggling so much???? Surprise! It’s still the studios. Everyone could get paid if they met the unions demands. But they won’t, because they are greedy assholes who would rather let their industry collapse then treat their workers like human beings.

Don’t forget that.

#ref rants #wga #wga strike #sag aftra #sag afra strike #pro union #unionize #drew berrymore #Disney #warner bros

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missjukebox8bit · 9 months

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I think magical girls should unionize

#magical girl #pro union #sailor moon #precure #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #revolutionary girl utena

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fluffykittensox · 7 months

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SAG-AFTRA ‘s statement via Twitter (x) just an hour ago

“SAG-AFTRA will meet for bargaining on Monday, October 2. Several executives from AMPTP member companies will be on attendance. As negotiations proceed, we will report any substantial updates directly to you.”

#sag aftra #Sag-aftra #screen actors guild #screen actors guild American federation of television and radio artists #Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists #sag strike #screen actors strike #union strong #wga solidarity #wga strike is over though but standing in solidarity with sag-aftra #wga strike #pro unions

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lady-griffin · 1 year

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It was very weird for me to go from Tumblr where I’ve been seeing a lot of good, supportive, and informative takes about the Writers’ Strike – where even the one or two posts I’ve seen being critical, still had a nuanced and sympathetic view.

To go to a community post on YouTube, where I saw some truly god awful, spiteful, uninformed, and just overall condescending takes on the subject.

And basically I was forced to remember that anti-union is not an uncommon stance at all, even by those who shouldn’t be anti-union in the slightest. Also, there are these dominanting ideas in our culture and society like -

‘Someone else has it worse than you, so shut up’

‘You’re not owed a job that pays you well’

‘You should be thankful for what you have and work harder to get a “better” and even different job if you want more, rather than just demanding it.’

‘You don’t deserve that (and by that, they mean things like dignity, respect, or any kind of good paying job)

And I’m just like...

Wow, you guys really drank up that capitalistic Kool-Aid, didn’t you?

There’s just so many things to unpack and criticize, but I can’t help but focus on this somewhat ambiguous idea of ‘it’s wrong for writers to do this, when other workers, like teachers and nursers are being treated unfairly today.’

Do you think you can only care about one thing?

Do you think only some workers deserve to be treated fairly and earn a living wage?

Do you think there’s only x amount of strikes that can happen in a given year?

Or that there’s a limit to how many unions can exist?

Do you think that writers receiving protections or more that what they are currently being given will somehow impact how teachers and nurses are being paid or treated?

It’s weird and beyond stupid that you’re bringing up other workers being treated unfairly as a reason for why this strike is bad.

Also, I’m not sure what you think the WGA can exactly do for nurses or teachers.

I’m still honestly very annoyed and even angry about this one stupid comment I saw - “Just use ChatGPT”

And yeah...

I forgot how strong and stupid anti-union rhetoric can be, as well as annoyingly pervasive.

#writers strike #Wgastrong #wga #writers guild of america #pro union #wga strike

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4lexandrea · 1 year

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This this this this

#rail transportation #railroad #rail strike #pro union #important

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weemstar · 9 months

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Hey since the WGA labor strike is mirroring the same kind of strikes that happened about a century ago

Listen to me.

Be extremely skeptical of what big news media outlets say about the strikes.

Because those same labor strikes were also demonized by the media. You can find newspaper clippings of strikers being called dangerous and violent, for doing any manner of things like murder and arson, and for being made of the current undesirables of the country at the time.

I'm not kidding they demonized those labor strikes by saying they were made of lazy violent immigrants.

Be extremely wary of any news articles about this strike as most large media is owned by rich people. They are going to demonize the strikers to try and break it up faster, because if the public stops supporting them, the rich people will have more leverage against them.

And people at these strikes need to be wary of random people joining wearing suspicious clothing who come to start making people violent or to harass people.

The same tactic is used by cops to agitate crowds so the other cops can move in with "justification"

Watch each other's backs.

#wga strike #current events #pro union

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whatbigotspost · 6 months

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Today (11/1/23) in US labor organizing

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gay-jewish-bucky · 9 months

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Actual footage of the Universal Studios* CEO "trimming" all of the shade trees at one of the L.A. WGA/SAG-AFTRA picket locations, so strikers have no protection from the intense heat of the sun

(*production company behind 2012's tumblr hit film The Lorax)

#sag #sag aftra #aftra #sag strike #sag aftra strike #aftra strike #sag strong #sag aftra strong #pro union #actors strike #wga strike #wga strong #writers strike #tree law #the onceler #the lorax #universal studios #onceler #lorax

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reasonsforhope · 26 days

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"For the first time in almost 60 years, a state has formally overturned a so-called “right to work” law, clearing the way for workers to organize new union locals, collectively bargain, and make their voices heard at election time.

This week, Michigan finalized the process of eliminating a decade-old “right to work” law, which began with the shift in control of the state legislature from anti-union Republicans to pro-union Democrats following the 2022 election. “This moment has been decades in the making,” declared Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber. “By standing up and taking their power back, at the ballot box and in the workplace, workers have made it clear Michigan is and always will be the beating heart of the modern American labor movement.”

[Note: The article doesn't actually explain it, so anyway, "right to work" laws are powerful and deceptively named pieces of anti-union legislation. What right to work laws do is ban "union shops," or companies where every worker that benefits from a union is required to pay dues to the union. Right-to-work laws really undermine the leverage and especially the funding of unions, by letting non-union members receive most of the benefits of a union without helping sustain them. Sources: x, x, x, x]

In addition to formally scrapping the anti-labor law on Tuesday [February 13, 2024], Michigan also restored prevailing-wage protections for construction workers, expanded collective bargaining rights for public school employees, and restored organizing rights for graduate student research assistants at the state’s public colleges and universities. But even amid all of these wins for labor, it was the overturning of the “right to work” law that caught the attention of unions nationwide...

Now, the tide has begun to turn—beginning in a state with a rich labor history. And that’s got the attention of union activists and working-class people nationwide...

At a time when the labor movement is showing renewed vigor—and notching a string of high-profile victories, including last year’s successful strike by the United Auto Workers union against the Big Three carmakers, the historic UPS contract victory by the Teamsters, the SAG-AFTRA strike win in a struggle over abuses of AI technology in particular and the future of work in general, and the explosion of grassroots union organizing at workplaces across the country—the overturning of Michigan’s “right to work” law and the implementation of a sweeping pro-union agenda provides tangible evidence of how much has changed in recent years for workers and their unions...

By the mid-2010s, 27 states had “right to work” laws on the books.

But then, as a new generation of workers embraced “Fight for 15” organizing to raise wages, and campaigns to sign up workers at Starbucks and Amazon began to take off, the corporate-sponsored crusade to enact “right to work” measures stalled. New Hampshire’s legislature blocked a proposed “right to work” law in 2017 (and again in 2021), despite the fact that the measure was promoted by Republican Governor Chris Sununu. And in 2018, Missouri voters rejected a “right to work” referendum by a 67-33 margin.

Preventing anti-union legislation from being enacted and implemented is one thing, however. Actually overturning an existing law is something else altogether.

But that’s what happened in Michigan after 2022 voting saw the reelection of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a labor ally, and—thanks to the overturning of gerrymandered legislative district maps that had favored the GOP—the election of Democratic majorities in the state House and state Senate. For the first time in four decades, the Democrats controlled all the major levers of power in Michigan, and they used them to implement a sweeping pro-labor agenda. That was a significant shift for Michigan, to be sure. But it was also an indication of what could be done in other states across the Great Lakes region, and nationwide.

“Michigan Democrats took full control of the state government for the first time in 40 years. They used that power to repeal the state’s ‘right to work’ law,” explained a delighted former US secretary of labor Robert Reich, who added, “This is why we have to show up for our state and local elections.”"

-via The Nation, February 16, 2024

#michigan #united states #us politics #labor #labor rights #labor unions #capitalism #unions #unionize #gretchen whitmer #democrats #voting matters #right to work #pro union #workers #workers rights #good news #hope

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