'We will get nowhere by maintaining this stasis,' says the presidential candidate on the eve of the union's election.
As we approach the finish line, how are you feeling about the election?
And also the wear and tear of this [agency campaign] is making people wonder, if this is going to go on for another five or six months, we’re into MBA negotiations and what is going to be the net result of going into the MBA negotiations with the companies in this state, which is we’re fighting battles on two fronts. This weakens us, and our whole slate has been of that opinion for the entire time.
But we are seeing younger people who, as Angelina Burnett put it recently, have nothing to lose, are way more likely to go along with the leadership action on the grounds of it being the right political thing to do. That’s what we’re finding. And the older writers who have been around for a while, who aren’t big showrunners — although there are some, obviously — who have weathered a lot of different kinds of storms, difficulty, strikes, etc. are people that are reaching out to us.
There’s no evidence that the TV portal has resulted in more net job for writers but there is evidence that it is working better than the current open assignment feature portal. There was a member who had called the guild about the feature portal and at least this member told me that it was admitted to her that they weren’t yet vetting the producers or organization that were posting these alleged assignments but that they were working on it. So perhaps that will improve.
If the agencies’ lawsuit is thrown out, we’re in this for a much longer haul. And then what I see happening is that the agencies who have been, as we know, quietly amassing packages around actors, directors and IP, signing foreign writers, we’ve heard stories of stockpiling scripts … they’re learning how to adapt without us. The notion that they will always need writers — yes, they will, but we will be writers for hire.
But basically, I see a lot of writers without agents, at the end of this — possibly being represented by the guild in some way, even though I have heard many people from leadership saying that that’s not what they want.I do think so.
So at the moment, if you look into the numbers for affiliate production and who they’re giving jobs to, the vast proportion of those jobs, even though they say they’re separate entities — and legally they are — the vast majority of those jobs are going to their affiliated agency clients. And that clearly, in whatever sunset proposal we come up, that can’t happen.
That’s a bigger question then what we’re dealing with, but that long term is a real concern. If you take this as the new normal, who’s going to be able to afford to be in this business? Certainly not anyone who doesn’t already have a bunch of savings or residuals coming in from things that were made five or 10 years ago.
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