#fuck the amptp

[thatrandomblogsays]

I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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#wga solidarity #wga strong #after months of watching union busting and anti union tactics #wga is coming out strong #hopefully sag is next! #writers strike #support unions #wga strike #sag strike #supernatural meme #destiel #destiel meme #workers rights #fuck the amptp #destiel news #mine #we’ve hit the note amount where people start fighting in the notes #stop fighting kids #but also the strike was absolutely necessary #withholding labor is how unions negotiate for better rights #the CEOs are multimillionaires who refused to pay proper wages #they needed to receive heavy losses so they’d actually come to the table listen to union demands

[azuremist]

SAG just released all the deal points and the AMPTP’s response, and you can find ALL of it online but I feel like this screenshot from it sums the whole thing up.

#sag strike #fuck the amptp #writers strike #wga strike #sag aftra #azure does a thing

[theabstruseone]

More bullshit going on with the strike. Here's basically what happened (linking to the official WGA statement on the matter if you want a proper source minus all my snark)

AMPTP asked for a meeting about having a meeting about coming back to the negotiation table with the WGA.

AMPTP straight up DEMANDED a full media and press blackout about the meeting.

AMPTP said they were unwilling to negotiate the majority of major issues the WGA are striking over.

AMPTP then IMMEDIATELY started leaking information to Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, and other industry news outlets that are owned by AMPTP member company Penske Media (this conflict of interest is seemingly never stated in their coverage of the strike)

WGA released a statement.

AMPTP is pretending to be angry that the WGA broke the media blackout that they themselves never intended to uphold.

A poll conducted by marketing research firm Leger released on Wednesday shows that the AMPTP only has support from 7% of respondents. That's not a typo, only seven percent.

#wga strike #sag aftra strike #union strong #wga solidarity #worker solidarity #fuck the amptp #wga #sag aftra

[queerxqueen]

thinking about how much more fun stranger things day would be if netflix would agree to sag aftra's reasonable demands for living wages and protections so that the cast could actually be involved and the folks involved could proudly promote their work. instead we have official accounts promoting merch and streaming full episodes on tiktok, because they have nothing better to offer, because they've been dragging their feet on paying the people who actually make their content for literal months.

#stranger things day #stranger things #st cast #sag aftra #sag strike #sag afra strike #obvious disclaimer: folks getting paid living wages and having sustainable careers is more important than me getting new content #so pls do not misconstrue my meaning pls #fuck netflix #fuck the amptp

[msfbgraves]

Seeing a lot of: "The selfish strikers are hurting the crew members 😥😫😭" takes on Tumblr suddenly.

Well hello AMPTP PR team!

If the retraction of your labor did not hurt anyone, strikes would be absolutely useless. An industry is supposed to suffer from a retraction of labor, to show the value of that labor. And that is exactly why nobody ever starts a negotiation there. Every negotiation goes: "I offer something against fair compensation. When not fairly compensated, I will retract my labor, with us both knowing full well that people are going to suffer. So let's not. Pay me fairly for all our benefits. You reap huge rewards from this labor. That comes with the responsibility of good stewardship." If they say: "Nope, I am unwilling to compensate you fairly," the "and I don't care who the hell suffers for it" goes without saying.

That suffering is supposed to be a pressure on the bosses, as their refusal to pay fairly is what causes it. What they're now doing is saying the strikers cause it, as if that action wasn't a response to them not taking responsibility.

Do you honestly think that the same people who want to squeeze writers and actors care a single fuck for the wellbeing of the crew?! The AMPTP is causing that pain and could end it with a 10th of what WB alone has already lost in revenue. But no they want to alleviate the pressure of the collatoral damage of their refusal by scabbing (lessening the pain for their consumers), and setting the workers against each other. Oh, it's not my fault for screwing my workers over, which hurts you! It's their fault for not letting me do it without a fight! They're so mean!

When this could all be resolved - already is being resolved! - by simply giving in to very reasonable demands! People, including crew, who have made agreements with the unions are in fact working!

Say some footballer was harassing someone and got kicked back so hard they couldn't play. If the game is cancelled because of that, do you say: well, they should have just let themselves be hurt so I don't suffer? Or do you say: that asshole footballer is letting us all down by not taking responsibility that comes with their position and being an awful person? Even a toddler knows who is at fault in that situation. But if I have to spell it out: it's the person that starts being awful when it is in their power not to be, and when in fact they had every chance not to be. It's the footballer kicking someone for no reason. It is the AMPTP who wants to exploit and underpay people and screw over consumers by only giving them AI crap, which was trained on stolen work, the copyright of which they don't own and never offered to pay for.

People suffer because the AMPTP won't agree not to hurt people. This stops - and has already stopped in some cases - the second they agree to a reasonable deal with inbuilt protections.

The AMPTP knew in rejecting these terms that they would throw the crew under the bus. They didn't give a shit as long as they could retain the power to exploit people.

I bet they are paying the PR people more than they're refusing to pay the unions to not have to come to an agreement, knowing full well how much that is costing not just the crew but the entire economy of California.

If I were a Californian representative, I would call Zaslav, Iger and Lombardini and pressure them to stop fucking over the entire state!

#wga strike #sag aftra strike #wga solidarity #Wga #union busting #fuck the amptp #They know Tumblr is a stronghold of support #Don't let them trick you into blaming the victim #victim blaming #We are too smart for that

[writergeekrhw]

What I don't understand about AI is shouldn't we want to teach the robots to do the menial tasks that nobody likes so we can have more time to spend on creative and other fun pursuits? Not have the robots do the fun stuff so we can continue to suffer doing the worst jobs. I want the Jetsons future with Rosie the Robot maid, not this, and I don't understand why ANYONE wants this. An AI can't possibly write or make music or paint as well as a human!

Of course, we should use AI, if we use it at all, to reduce human misery and increase our free time so people can have more fun and make more art. But the people who are driving the current AI push into creative arts don't see things that way. From what I can tell, they're basically soulless techbros and/or greedy billionaires who don't give a shit about art, or the quality of human life, or even the looming dangers of the singularity. They will happily destroy jobs, human creativity, and even humanity itself if it will make their stock options go up and let them buy bigger yachts.

#ask me anything #tv writing #ask me stuff #ai #ai art generator #chatgpt #wgawest #wga west #stand with the wga #wga strike #support the wga #wga strong #sag aftra #sag strike #amptp #fuck the amptp

[iww-gnv]

Striking actors met again Thursday with representatives from the major Hollywood studios in another effort to hammer out a deal. The Screen Actors Guild previously met Wednesday for three hours to discuss the studios’ counterproposal concerning artificial intelligence. SAG apparently reviewed the offer and delivered a revised proposal. The union was awaiting a response, and the two parties were likely to discuss the offer during the third straight day of negotiations. The union, while optimistic about the talks, said no deadline exists. “It could be sometime in the coming days or weeks. Yeah, it could be, but it all depends on the companies coming forward and making moves that let us reach that deal,” SAG- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said.

#news #sag-aftra #sag aftra #sag-aftra strike #sag aftra strike #actors strike #hollywood strike #fuck the amptp #hot strike fall #hot labor fall #us news #uspol #us pol

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

This whole thing would have been over by now if the AMPTP weren’t so hell bent on acting like Saturday morning cartoon villains.

#WGA Strike #Writers Strike #SAG AFTRA #SAG AFTRA Strike #SAG Strike #Fuck the AMPTP

[luckydiorxoxo]

SAG-AFTRA reveals that industry CEOs have walked away from the bargaining table after refusing to counter their latest offer.

AMPTP has:

- Refused to protect performers from being replaced by AI

The major studios are refusing to grant actors protection against AI and are “continuing to demand ‘consent’ on the first day of employment for use of a performer’s digital replica for an entire cinematic universe (or any franchise project).”

- Refused to increase SAG-AFTRA members’ wages to keep up with inflation

- Refused to share a tiny portion (2%) of their revenue. The major studios are refusing to give SAG-AFTRA the fair deal that they deserve, including shares from streaming revenue (which would cost the companies less than 57¢ per subscriber each year), and more.

#sag aftra #fuck the amptp #amptp #sag afta strike

[lovemewednesdays]

a statement from the wga.

8/22/23

DEAR MEMBERS, After 102 days of being on strike and of AMPTP silence, the companies began to bargain with us on August 11th, presenting us for the first time with a counteroffer. We responded to their counter at the beginning of last week and engaged in further discussions throughout the week. On Monday of this week, we received an invitation to meet with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, and Carol Lombardini. It was accompanied by a message that it was past time to end this strike and that the companies were finally ready to bargain a deal. We accepted that invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work. Instead, on the 113th day of the strike – and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side – we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was. We explained all the ways in which their counter’s limitations and loopholes and omissions failed to sufficiently protect writers from the existential threats that caused us to strike in the first place. We told them that a strike has a price, and that price is an answer to all – and not just some – of the problems they have created in the business. But this wasn’t a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave, which is why, not 20 minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals. This was the companies’ plan from the beginning – not to bargain, but to jam us. It is their only strategy – to bet that we will turn on each other. Tomorrow we will send a more detailed description of the state of the negotiations. And we will see you all out on the picket lines so that the companies continue to see what labor power looks like. IN SOLIDARITY, WGA NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE

Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund.

#wga strike #sag strike #fuck the amptp #nic speaks

[show-your-fangs]

SAG-AFTRA hasn’t gone on strike in over 40 years. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA haven’t gone on strike together for over 60 — say what you will, but today is HISTORIC. let’s fucking go!

#writers strike #actors strike #fuck the amptp #support the wga #wga strike #wga strike 2023 #sag aftra #saf aftra strike #bob iger I am in your walls

[theinkedknight]

And Moses said unto Pharoh, let my residuals go

#amptp #fuck the amptp #writers strike #actors strike #sag aftra #wga strike #union #union solidarity

[violet-rose-95]

Love the phrasing here. SONY has postponed the release due to strikes by writers and actors ADVOCATING FOR FAIR WAGES AND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS

Doesn't blame the strikers, puts the blame SOLELY on Sony, and highlights why the strikers are striking. SOLID post

#wga strike #sag strike #fuck the amptp #sag aftra #across the spiderverse

[theabstruseone]

The whole stance of the AMPTP is bafflingly hilarious to me, especially after both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA negotiations are public now. The unions are on strike because they're not being paid - literally, the studios are refusing to pay residuals for streaming and are looking to use actors' likenesses outside the actual film/show they're contracted for via CGI scans on top of just straight-up unapologetically paying writers and actors months or years later than the contract requires.

But AMPTP thinks they can wait out the unions because they'll run out of money and go broke from not getting paid.

Which will make them sign a deal where they won't get paid.

...I am just fascinated by this weird-ass logical path.

Unions: Please pay us.

AMPTP: No.

Unions: Then we'll go on strike.

AMPTP: Fine, but we won't pay you while you're striking.

Unions: ...you're not paying us now.

AMPTP: Here, agree to this contract that says we won't pay you and then you can go back to work.

Unions: Work you won't pay us for?

AMPTP: Exactly.

Unions: ...........are you video conferencing in on a yacht?

AMPTP: No.

Unions: ...

AMPTP: This is the boat that lives in the large swimming pool that's on my yacht. Anyway, you going back to work now?

#sag-aftra strike #sag aftra strike #wga strike #actors strike #writers strike #fuck the amptp #union strong #there's more than one way to lose a house

[sunflowerthiefsunny]

SAG-AFTRA is still on strike after another session of negotiations fell through, and CEOs tried to propose a deal that was worse than their first one.

#op #sag aftra #sag strike #not to mention Disney just released a horrible movie that used AI actors #its ridiculous #fuck the amptp

[macaro-mochi]

It only just hit me that we're not getting a Halloween episode of Abbott Elementary this year after getting such an amazing one last year.... amptp ceos count your days....

#abbott elementary #sag afta strike #sag after strong #fuck the money hungry ceos that ruin everything goddamnit #fuck the amptp