#wgastrong

I have Stevie Wonder’s “Sign, Sealed, Delivered” cued up in my playlist, but I WILL NOT press the play button a second too early! #WGAstrong #writing #writingcommunity

While last night’s strike news was very good, my writer friends remind me that the union members still have to vote on it! #WGAstrike #WGAstrong

Congrats to the WGA for reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP. #wgastrong https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/negotiations-update-tentative-agreement

@adamconover Congrats on the #wgastrike tentative deal! So great to see #wgastrong succeeded on what appears to be all counts.

Very happy to hear that the #WGAStrike might be ending soon. I eagerly look forward to hearing what the #WGAStrong negotiating team has managed.

Meanwhile, the #SAGAFTRAStrike continues.

While I'm hoping that #VFX can get back to work soon, I'm 100% pro-union.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/negotiations-update-tentative-agreement

A tentative deal has been reached between writers and streamers!!! 🥳🥳🥳

So happy for such an incredibly deserving community of people who do so much for the rest of us. I’m just grateful and celebrate with them for a historic deal that will change the lives of many, and benefit future writers as well.

#SAGAFTRA #WritersStrike #WGA #WGAStrong

@romancelandia

#WGA seem to have reached a tentative agreement for a new collective contract.

Here's the message, shared on twitter by Adam Conover (of "Adam Ruins Everything"):
"We did it. We have a tentative deal.

Over the coming days, we'll discuss and vote on it, together, as a democratic union. But today, I want to thank every single WGA member, and every fellow worker who stood with us in solidarity. You made this possible. Thank you. #WGAStrong
#SupportUnions #SupportWorkers

The Writers' Guild has reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood producers, hoping SAG-AFTRA will get one soon.

#WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-deal-reached-studios-end-of-strike-1235403981/#

RT @LOLGOP :
UAW is gonna win, too.
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RT @TananariveDue :
A tentative agreement has been reached to end the WGA strike! #wgastrong #unionstrong

Glad it never came to this #wgastrong

Hell yeah, congratulations writers! #wgastrong #wgastrike

Big first step

#WGAStrong

“It’s an historic offer…” 
Means: pay level from 1983. 

“The pay is competitive…” 
Means: the lowest possible level of pay.

"Best and final offer..."
Means: they want people to trade a good deal for a fast one.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #negotiations #DealMaking #sales #union #compensation #pay

Behind the PR image, who is Carol Lombardini?

Read here: https://bit.ly/CeoShameEater

#CarolLombardini #biography #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #LaborNegotiations #AMPTP #CEOs #UnionStrikes #union #unions

Did you know that the CEO of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, is also on the board of The Walt Disney Company?

They are, and the UAW are quite literally up against the same people SAG-AFTRA and WGA are up against. Their fight is our fight.

Maybe concentrating wealth and power in only a few hands was a bad idea.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #AutoworkersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UAWstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UAWstrong #UnionStrong

Shaene Siders: Got 2 minutes? In July, Warner Brothers & Cartoon Network production workers filed to unionize! Warner Brothers will evaluate support via public petition. Please sign & encourage voluntary recognition of the union! You will make a difference! #TAG #animation #ProductionStrong #UnionStrong #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrong #WarnerBrothers #CartoonNetwork #union #IATSELocal839
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/recognize-wbacns-production-workers-now

It’s a four quadrant property with franchise potential.

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #u1

Like the AMPTP and their PR firms are teaching a master class in weak tactics, failed ideas and how to ruin one’s own reputation.

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #PRfail #entertainment #film #tv #movies #television

@morgfair Glad to hear it!
#WGAstrong 💪

Studios say they are presenting their "final offer" to the #wga today.

since the writers can continue to strike if the offer is poor, the studios may have to come back with "final_offer_v03_final" or "final_offer_v04_final_locked_really"

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/writers-strike-wga-amptp-contract-talks-2-1235733340/

p.s. this is why I always use version numbers only, and never call something "final" until approved by all parties.

#WGAStrike #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAStrong

New from Solzy at the Movies: WGA Reviewing Latest AMPTP Offer

#WGA #WGAStrike #WGAstrong #film #movies #TV #news

https://www.solzyatthemovies.com/2023/09/23/wga-reviewing-latest-amptp-offer/

While I’m cautiously optimistic about the WGA and AMPTP talks, I find myself skeptical about anything released by the trades at the moment. I’ll need to see a statement from the WGA before any real celebrating occurs. #wgastrike #wga #wgastrong #writing #writingcommunity

Cautious optimism on possible end of Hollywood strikes, as 3 consecutive days of negotiations between Writers+Artists and Studios+Streamers+Executives will continue for 4th day on Saturday (today)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/after-marathon-session-writers-guild-negotiations-conclude-friday-without-deal-1235596721/

#fz_links #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrong #UnionStrong #FairWageForFairWork

Shakespeare was desperate, in the pocket of theater owners and would have crossed the #WGAStrike picket lines. Chris Marlow would have stayed #WGAStrong

#FakeShakespeareFacts 
#HashTagGames

I have to scratch my head when I read that WGA and AMPTP finally decide it's time to get together and they start meetings at 11am and finish at 8pm.

Really? Something more important to do in the mornings? I mean, no one's waiting on results or anything.

I get it if the deal is so bad to not talk, but if you're talking, wouldn't you want to be talking a lot? Constantly passing items to lawyers and such?

#WGAStrong #SAGStrong

And to all a good night.

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #WGA #strike #UnionStrong #u1

My friend wrote an article about AI at work in entertainment, and it's just been published by Data Driven Investor on @medium. It's a glimpse into how artificial intelligence and the workplace impact #film and #animation in Asia, and the world.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/RaiyanOnAI

#AI #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #IntellectualProperty #IP #VoiceActing #actors #acting #actorslife #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrike #WGAstrong

😝

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong

I have some of my strike shirt designs here:
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/sag-aftra-and-wga-strike-2023-my-proceeds-to-ecf/

And I also got to help with the WGA StrikeShirts available here (these are also union printed):
https://wgastrikeshirts.com/collections/sag-aftra

All net proceeds go to the Entertainment Community Fund to support those impacted by the strikes.

#SAGAFTRA #WGA #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #tshirts #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #Threadless

ICYMI, the WGA and AMPTP are back at the negotiating table for the third straight day. Sounds like progress is being made, although no word on how close they are to a deal.

Here's hoping the writers get most (if not all!) they're asking for!

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-21/wga-amptp-writers-strike-meeting

#movies #WGAStrike #WGAStrong

The paths to meaningful safeguards around AI include new laws (legislative), actual agreements (contractual) and the courts (judicial), at least. Having all deals be fair for everyone on all sides, with safety, consent and compensation secured for all sides, is the real way forward.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/21/indian-actor-anil-kapoor-wins-court-battle-over-ai-use-of-his-likeness

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #AI #AIsafeguards #UnionStrong

Find a picket near you today: 🪧✊

WGA: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/picket-schedules-and-locations

SAG-AFTRA: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/picket-schedule-locations

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #film #tv #movies #television

The process continues. Continuing is good.

Stay frosty: it’s not done until a new contract is in place for both #WGAstrong & #SAGAFTRAstrong, and then next year for #IATSEstrong & #TeamsterStrong.

This year we set the tone, next year we bring it home.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/negotiations-update-9-21-23

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong #film #tv #movies #television

😃✊🦈

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #IATSEstrong #IAstrong #UnionStrong #entertainment #film #tv #movies #television #union #solidarity

That AMPTP and WGA talked today is good, and none of this is over until a new contract is in place for both striking unions. And then a new contract in place for IATSE and Teamsters next year. This year we set the tone, next year we bring it home.

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#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #u1

Many accounts online posting anti-strike and anti-union comments tonight in many platforms. These are all being paid for.

Stay frosty.

Remember the press may not have the story on what’s really happened, happening or happens next. Keep an eye out for official union messages.

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#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #u1

Progress as they’ll be talking tomorrow. Won’t be easy to be patient as they do and we don’t know what’s what until something happens.

Remember any rumors are just that rumors and nothing good comes from taking rumor as real.

I hope the AMPTP take this seriously, earnestly seek a resolution in good faith and keep talking.

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #u1 #film #tv #movies #television

Have donated my proceeds through August from my strike designs on Threadless to The Entertainment Community Fund to support those impacted by the actor and writer strikes.

Get a strike shirt and more at (all my proceeds go to the ECF to support those impacted by the strikes): https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/sag-aftra-and-wga-strike-2023-my-proceeds-to-ecf/

#SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #tshirt #orca #rainbow #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #film #tv #movies #television #actors #writers #union #ecf #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike

I’m not an organizer of this, but Tyler Ruggeri, strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #MurderSheWrote #writer #u1

Dancing with the Stars is a WGA show, and so its writers are on strike.

They need to shut down until they make a deal with the writers.

https://directories.wga.org/project/921548/dancing-with-the-stars/

#WritersStrike #WGAstrong #WGAstrike #DrewTheWriteThing #DWTS #UnionStrong #u1

Go IATSE!

I’m not an organizer of this, but strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #IATSEstrong #IAstrong #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong

Warner Brothers Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels (annual compensation ~$7.4M) wrote their doctoral dissertation on buyer trust, and conspicuously didn’t clarify in a public comments this week if canceling popular shows builds trust for Max subscriptions—because it doesn't.

Sell your WBD stock now.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #WBD #WarnerBrothersDiscovery #film #tv #movies #television #finance

Drew Barrymore and ‘The Talk’ postpone their daytime talk shows until after the Hollywood Strikes - AP News
https://apnews.com/article/drew-barrymore-strike-show-premiere-postponed-92e4ded590fb2c75f08d4ea94224bd96
#WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAstrike

Spencer Neumann, the CFO of Netflix, owns a home that sold in 2015 for $9,600,000, and yet refuses to call #SAGAFTRAstrong nor #WGAstrong.

Instead, Neumann is saying, "We Need To Get Back To Work, That’s What We Are Focused On."

Such a transparent falsehood.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/netflix-cfo-actors-writers-strkes-1235545511/

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UnionStrong #lies #NFLX #netflix

I’m not an organizer of this, but strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong #labor #u1 #DrewTheWriteThing

CBS hyping up reruns on NFL commercial breaks like they're some kind of event is peak corporate desperation and I'm here for it. The strike is working, and the companies will break.

#WGAStrong #UnionStrong #union

Totally plausible phone conversation. 😝

And an article also by Clara about #Barrymore’s willful error:

https://colormeloverly.substack.com/p/fame-means-never-having-to-say-youre

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #funny #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #UnionStrong #labor #scab #u1 #ColorMeLoverly

Yes, and…picket.

I’m not an organizer of this, but @bjcomedy on other platforms, strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #improv

Every single time you are stupid enough to blame wga/sag workers for keeping folks out of work and not the billionaire studios, you have fallen for a studio tactic. Every single time.

#DaniFernandez #UnionStrong #WGAStrong #WGAStrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrike

Now that's a good rewrite.

#BillMaher #WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #maher #u1

Ah yes, the consequences of their own actions.

Please share far and wide.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #BillMaher #Maher #DrewBarrymore #Barrymore #u1 #strike #UAWstrike

Ya know how I know the studios/streamers/networks can’t wait out the strikers?

A major studio just switched a huge planned TV series into a movie, which will cost them less money to make than a series would have. One of their most valuable franchises: getting cost cut because the studios are hurting, badly.

A major streamer had nothing new to offer the entire US on the last big holiday weekend.

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#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #u1

Maybe this person is doing this for publicity, but harming hundreds of thousands of people is something he now owns, forever.

#WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #writers #screenwriting #BillMaher

Doing the work of someone on strike is bad. Don’t do that.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #screenwriting #tv #television

I’m not an organizer of this, but strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #BattlestarGalactica #SoSayWeAll #BSG

I have again paid my monthly subscriptions for Disney+ and Neon (local HBO licensee) to the Entertainment Community Fund.

Edit to include link:
https://entertainmentcommunity.org/FilmTV2023

#WGAStrong

Out here again. Rally and March. Netflix to Paramount. We will NOT be broken! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
#wgastrong #sagaftrastrong #wga #sagaftra #strike

I appreciate Apple demonstrating what happens when professional screenwriters are on strike with its cringe Mother Nature sketch. #AppleEvent #WGAStrong

Los Angeles March and Rally!

I’m not an organizer of this, but strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #march #rally

Go IATSE 44!

I am not an organizer of this, but the strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #IATSEstrong #IAstrong

The AMPTP companies are being so destructive, to themselves as well as everyone else, with their unwillingness to speak to their own employees and make a deal.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UnionStrong #u1

United We Trek!

Saw a *lot* of the Trek family from @georgetakei and Walter Koenig to Dawn Wells and Isa Briones and every department on #StarTrek

I’d take better pictures but I was carrying a sign. 😀

#SAGStrong #WGAStrong

Friday morning, we march, Trek fans, in LA and NYC. #WGAstrong

What a cute little strike cow. 🐮

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #cute #cow #bovine

#SAGAFTRAstrong Sally Field in the movie Norma Rae written #WGAstrong by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #LaborDay

🤔😝

#UnionStrong #LaborDay #HappyLaborDay #labor #labour #union #unions #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong

Reading about the Ludlow Massacre and how it helped make working better.

Child labor laws and the 8 hours workday were achieved with bloody sacrifice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

#LaborDay #HappyLaborDay #ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #u1

Happy #LaborDayWeekend to everyone except the greedy jerks who don't pay people a living wage

The #WGAStrike has been going on for 125 days! The #SAGAFTRA #strike has been going for 52 days!

Many small studios agreed to WGA/SAG's terms, larger studios have instead spent tons of money hiring PR firms to make you forget they refuse to negotiate with #WGA & #SAG!

#UnionStrong #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrong

#LABORday #WritersStrike #Labor #Streaming #Hollywood #Movies #mastoArt #Watercolor

HAPPY LABOR DAY
My muse, Lucy Parsons, always spoke truth to power.
———————————————
Today is the line in the sand.
Four months on strike and counting. Fair demands still not met.
An industry in increasing pain.
And the AMPTP still in denial.
Union members are ready to take the gloves off if negotiations don’t move forward positively from here.
#lucyparsons
#unionstrong
#wga
#sagaftra
#wgastrike #sagaftrastrike
#wgastrong
#sagaftrastrong
#Strike
#boycott

They know what they’re doing is wrong. $DIS people know Iger is doing damage, and bad things. If you work there, find the courage and push back. Shareholders, fire him.

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/01/actors-writers-strike-disney-bob-iger/

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #disney

It’s a tough one. 🤔

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #union #u1

I am not an organizer of this, but the strike captains and coordinators at the lot/building can get anything you need to know about this.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD #TableTopGaming

If you're pro-union, Bob Iget & David Zaslav should be fired: failing shareholders by refusing to deal & treat workers fairly.

If you're anti-union, Bob Iger & David Zaslav should be fired: failing shareholders since VFX artists are now organizing a union.

Shareholders: fire the CEOs.

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike
#SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong

After 14 days of striking, you can get unemployment benefits as striking worker in New York (so far the only state that gives unemployment to strikers).

PDF from NY state: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021/01/p835.pdf

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #finances #strike #strikes #striking #labor #labour #unemployment

Step 1: Be the AMPTP and decide the problem with paying your employees properly is a PR problem.

Step 2: Decide to hire The Levinson Group as your third PR firm to help with crisis PR.

Step 3: Have The Levinson Group's other clients reconsider whether or not to be clients of The Levinson Group anymore.

Everything the AMPTP touches withers. They need to stop with the foolish and give the unions what the unions asked for.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #PR

How are you going to fix the public's perception of you as evil corporations that exploit and dehumanize their employees when the business model you're fighting so desperately to protect so obviously exploits and dehumanizes your employees?

#WGAstrong #WGAstrike #sagaftrastrong #SAGAFTRAstrike