#iatse solidarity

[davidaugust]

Real progress is a good thing.


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

#actors strike #sag aftra strike #sag aftra strong #sag aftra solidarity #writers strike #wga strike #wga strong #wga solidarity #iatse strong #iatse solidarity #teamster strong #teamster solidarity #union strong #union #labor unions #unionize #support unions #strikes work

[fuckingeviljerseybitch]

Still supporting the siblings, sisters, and brothers in the video game industry. Make them hear you, family. Solidarity always.

#unions get it done #trade unions #sag aftra #writers strike #iatse solidarity #want something that your employers are being assholes about #get your coworkers to unionize and tell your managers to get fucked with one voice

[rodeoromeo]

MOVING AID REQUEST

Hi all <3 Britt here again! I'm really hoping this part of my life is over soon, but I'm in the home stretch. As you may know, I am being displaced from my current house and life due to an inability to find extraneous work during the writers and actors strike that has put a halt to the profession I studied and have been working in consistently for the past 4 years. At the moment I am looking for funds to aid in my move from Los Angeles back to my parents house in New York where I'll be free of my rent expenses and hopefully get my feet back under me. I am looking for general funds to aid in shipping some of my possessions back home, to fix my car for the drive (oil change, tire change), my student loan payments, and to pay various lingering expenses I have with my current apartment such as my power bill. Anything anyone has available to help would be so greatly appreciated. It's a difficult time and I'm just trying to make the best of it! I really appreciate all the help that people have given me so far and I feel so grateful to be a part of this community. So much love to you all <3

PAYPAL

VENMO

scrungly george for your troubles <3

#mutual aid #community aid #aid request #writers strike #sag aftra #wga #wga solidarity #sag aftra strike #iatse #fundraising #op

[findias]

hi there! as an industry [film/tv] professional, i have to say, it's insane things have lasted this long. at any point, the AMPTP could have decided to negotiate with us in a good faith position, and yet they've decided that is not a prudent business choice. it's put hundreds of thousands of below the line people like me in the place of "is living in LA worth it?" because so many of us need to scrape together the barest amount of money to sustain ourselves here. i'm lucky, i have an SO who loves me enough to let me stay here even though i haven't had rent money in four months, but not every one of us is as lucky. the entertainment industry is hemorrhaging, and i doubt all of us will survive this. but never forget, our real enemies are the over payed CEOs on the top of our corporate ladders. they refuse to give us a fair share, they refuse to even negotiate what looks like a fair share. these people are not your friends. when they die, we will all be better off. none of the guilds wanted this. it is entirely on the laps of the greedy mother fucking pieces of shit who cornered us into this. and I hope they die soon.

#amptp #sag strike #sag aftra #wga strike #i stand with the wga #support the wga #wga solidarity #iatse #union strong #iatse strike #pro union #labor unions

[thefirsthogokage]

More Strike Solidarity!

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And Outside the US:

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It's more than Canada and the UK joining in on showing support on June 14th:

Under the banner of “Screenwriters Everywhere,” solidarity events are planned in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Argentina, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, South Korea, Spain, Mexico and Israel. Even war-torn Ukraine’s Guild of Screenwriters of Ukraine will take part in the day of international solidarity.

Here's The Black List's Twitter Thread On This:

For better viewing:

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#wga strong #wga strike #strike solidarity #wga solidarity #wgc #writers guild of canada #screenwriters everywhere #wga east #wga west #june 14th 2023 #wggb #writers guild of great britain #teamsters #iatse #local 11 #the black list

[sorio99]

For those of you not in America, I believe the situation here can be best summed up as “People have suddenly remembered how effective strikes can be when the bosses can’t have them all killed.”

#writers strike #wga strike #sag aftra strike #ups strike #iatse strike #my sincere hope is that this never ages poorly #I don’t think Warner Bros. has the authority to call in the military like Rockefeller did #though if I’m wrong I feel like we’re hurtling ever closer to US Revolution 2 the Squeakel #sidenote #why did the whole squeakel thing catch on as a meme? #is it even spelt squeakel? #no apparently it’s squeakquel #the point is solidarity forever

[jayblanc]

The Strike is over, but the conditions continue.

Okay, so the Media Strikes are over* what now? Everything is fine right, and onwards we go.

Except... All the guys who worked their hardest to undermine the Unions are all still there. And let me assure you that even when they're not outright hostile, there's swathes of "Producers" who maintain wilful ignorance of what they need to do to be right by their workers.

Here's an example from the "wilful ignorance" end of that scale, and one that threatens to become too common an occurrence as we enter the age of the multi-million dollar 'crowdfunded' production.

Back in the middle of the Strike, the producers of the successful crowd funded 'Lackadaisy' Pilot announced a crowd funded series order. They quickly hit their target for a new episode, then a short-season production order, and raised more than enough that they declared they could complete a full season production order at two million dollars.

I contacted the producers to ask if they were going to do right by their returning SAG-AFTRA cast, and be careful to follow SAG-AFTRA terms and consider getting an appropriate waiver if they needed one.

I received almost immediate lash-back from the producers, who were incensed that I questioned them, and accused me of 'trying to tear them down to be a hero'. They then issued this public statement on their crowd funder, buried as a silent update to their FAQ...

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We are not members of the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers). That is the body that SAG-AFTRA (The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and the WGA (Writers Guild of America) are on strike against. We are also not a theatrical production (which the strikes are explicitly targeting), and so are not subject to the strikes. We negotiate our contracts with our crew members directly, not through AMPTP. Those AMPTP contracts are what SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are objecting to, and we do not use those objectionable contracts. We wholeheartedly support the current labor actions, and hope labor is able to achieve every single one of their demands and more! There is no art without artists, and art is labor. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

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Let's go over this statement...

"We are not members of the AMPTP" - No, you personally are not. And under the line producers are indeed annoyed at the AMPTP for making it appear they represent all production staffers when they do not. But... And this is important, all production *companies* are still employers, and SAG-AFTRA, WGA and IATSE are the collective bargaining units that hold them to account. And these unions have to operate from the assumption that your company might, for example, seek to do a deal with Netflix to get the series streamed there... And even if they're "Just going to put it on YouTube", well, it may come as a shock but YouTube is owned by a Big Media Company called Google. It is actually very hard to distribute media truly independently than you might think, and avoiding the AMPTP is difficult. Particularly since they don't make their member companies particularly easy to identify, and there's no published list of them... But even if you still do all that, this still means your production company is Management, and the unions have every right to look after your work force.

"We are also not a theatrical production" - This is either weasel wording, or wilful ignorance. No, they are not a "Theatrical Production". But having a budget over one million dollars means they are a "Television Production", even if independently streamed and distributed. And relevant expectations of following a collectively bargained agreement in the relevant category still exist.

"We negotiate our contracts with our crew members directly" - Nothing says you understand collective bargaining more than insisting on individual negotiations with your work force.

"Those AMPTP contracts are what SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are objecting to, and we do not use those objectionable contracts." - Again this is either wilful ignorance of weasel wording. The 'Minimum Agreements' were not set out by the AMPTP, they're the product of the unions pushing them into agreeing on them. And they are the minimums, not full contracts. The strikes were about renegotiating better minimums agreements. And the new minimum agreements won't be "AMPTP Contracts" either, but the bare minimum the unions will demand from you.

"There is no art without artists, and art is labor. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!" - I find it strange to end this statement on a declaration of solidarity, after spending the rest of it explaining how you don't think that solidarity applies to you.

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Now I want to make it clear, I am not making an assumption of malice on behalf of the Lackadaisy production. I wish them and those that will be working for them, all the best of luck.

But, at the end of the day, worker conditions are harmed just as much by wilful ignorance as direct malice. And sometimes, people who have assured themselves that they are good people can cause harm because they simply don't bother to examine their assumptions. And then cause further harm by doubling down on it when questioned, because they believe themselves to be good people, so anyone 'attacking them' must be a bad person.

And some times that means intervention to drag them into actually understanding their obligations. Be it reluctantly, be it kicking and screaming about being attacked, be it actively opposed. That's what unions are there for.

And that's what Solidarity actually means.

(*IATSE, the associated media worker trade group is expected to go on strike when their collective contract is up for renegotiation early 2024)

#sag aftra #wga strike #iatse #support unions #union strong #solidarity #production #lackadaisy

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

and remember...

#sag aftra #sag strike #iatse #the animation guild #2024 #solidarity #union strong

[belladonnaprice]

#iatse local 798 #strike #sag aftra #wga strike #writers guild of america #screen actors guild #american federation of television and radio artists #broadway strike #solidarity #iatse 798 #iatse #fuck yeah #take on Broadway too

[davidaugust]

The companies can't endure additional strikes. Netflix's "new" section is a throwback to retro content; CEOs got a compensation cut due to shareholder-imposed pay reductions. Iger and Disney face multiple lawsuits from various investor groups. An "activist" shareholder, Nelson Peltz, seeks to dismantle Disney. These companies and CEOs hurt themselves and us, they need our work, badly. And will try hard to divide us to get it for nothing.

IATSE and Teamsters can bring home to the CEOs this everlasting truth: employees deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work in safe, stable working conditions. "Alone we beg, together we bargain" isn't just for individual people: it means unions working together succeed together. This year we set the tone, next year we bring it home.

#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WritersStrike #WGAstrike #WGAstrong #IATSEstrong #TeamstersStrong #UnionStrong #u1 #movies #tv #film #television #entertainment

#actors strike #sag aftra strike #sag aftra strong #sag aftra solidarity #writers strike #wga strike #wga strong #wga solidarity #iatse strong #teamster strong #union #union strong #movies #tv #film #television #setlife #strikes #contract #strike #sag strike

[presidentalpaca]

"On July 19th, 86 production workers at Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS) made a demand for voluntary union recognition. Since then, the company has continued to stall and refuses to accept that a super-majority of production workers at WBA/CNS want to be represented by The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839 (TAG). The company continues to claim production managers do not have a right to join our union. We completely disagree. We continue to stand united for all production managers and APM's to be protected by a TAG contract. After two months of waiting, the time for further delays is over. We call upon Warner Bros. Discovery executives and CEO David Zaslav to immediately agree to recognize all WBA/CNS production workers as part of our union with The Animation Guild."

Please sign!! At this moment they have gotten 3,579 signatures and need 2,821 more to reach their goal of 6,400. All you need to provide is an email and zip code.

#iatse #union strong #union #hot strike summer #union solidarity #cartoon network studios #the animation guild #tag #wga #warner brothers animation #warner brothers #cartoon network #wba #babbles

[sparklywaistcoat]

#iatse #animators #disney #solidarity #unions

[nyctarian]

SAG-AFTRA is officially on strike

The WGA is on their 73rd day striking, at midnight SAG-AFTRA will join them, having both unions striking at the same time for the first time in 63 years

#sag aftra #labor rights #unfortch the dga already came to an agreement but that union has made it clear (along w iatse and the teamsters) that they have solidarity #in the same way the wga is striking but some members for like online mags etc can keep writing the sagaftra strike i believe #is specific to the tv and movies and theater doing labor stoppage but the whole union will be in solidarity #orig post

[thefirsthogokage]

GET IT WALT DISNEY VFX WORKERS!!

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#vfx union #walt disney #disney #unions #solidarity summer #2023 labor news #iatse #iatse vfx #iatse vfx union

[conspiracyofcrazy]

Hey gang! While we are supporting some of our favorite creators, let's see if we can help a few more. Let's see if we can get Disney to recognize an animator's union

#eat the rich #capitalism #eat the 1% #activism posting #pro union #union solidarity #unionize #unions #union strong #sag aftra strike #iatse #support the wga #wga #sag #sag aftra

[dykerory]

just a reminder that you do not know the names of most of the people in SAG-AFTRA. They are not multi-millionaire A-Listers, not even beloved D-listers with a cult following. They are ordinary people struggling to make a living, living paycheck to paycheck just like the majority of WGA members. The push for SAG to strike was from the bottom up and that is who we have to thank for this moment of entertainment labor solidarity.

Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund to support those striking, as well as teamsters and IATSE members affected by the strikes

#sag strike #wga strike #wga strong #creo