The problem is that TV and movies are part of larger corporations and corporate CEOs aren’t interested in more than the bottom line. They’re held accountable to shareholders and institutional investors and all they care about is increased revenue while costs are being kept down.
On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 8:14 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a good example of why regular people hate corporations and their > minions. One might think capitalism would incentivize them to act in their > own self-interest, but it doesn’t. What is best for HBO and Disney is to > tell their Show Runners to stand as much as possible with their writing > staffs during the strike, keep cohesion and morale good, and come back as a > solid team when the Strike is over. There are ways to get them to do legit > non-Union work, and the corporation ps would benefit from giving the > benefit of the doubt in gray areas to the Union. But capitalism > incentivizes shitty behavior, not self-interested behavior. Corporations > typically assume that the more shitty and punitive they are to workers, the > more workers will be afraid to stand up to them in the future. They would > rather weaken current creative teams to increase their leverage down the > road, and will act that way even when past experience shows it does not > really increase leverage as much as it increases cynicism and lack of > commitment by workers. > > On Sat, 6 May 2023 at 3:48 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The expected letters to showrunners, even those that are also WGA, >> expecting them to report to work for their other duties, went out from >> D!sney, HBO/Max, and CBS... >> >> https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-disney-hbo-showrunners-letter-other-studios-wga-1235357794/ >> (link) >> B >> >> PGage, May 2nd, in part: >> >> As expected, WGA went on strike at 1 minute after Midnight this morning. >> Could be weeks, but probably months, as most studios will not mind saving >> on productions costs for three months or so. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a46bc6ab-7440-4eab-a69a-16a9bb9b15b5n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a46bc6ab-7440-4eab-a69a-16a9bb9b15b5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJSMcyiLr-990YtLa0PGKeap5KscYKZpu-hgyqpEHAVUg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJSMcyiLr-990YtLa0PGKeap5KscYKZpu-hgyqpEHAVUg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEHBxY%3Db727PnQF%3DML2mhtaN46PAJUrecxuqAEZAb9vUQ%40mail.gmail.com.
