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Not since 1960, the U.S. entertainment industry went on strike.
The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild of America-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are both on strike after talks with the studio executives failed.
This affects television, radio, music and podcasts. This affects millions.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Congress have not reacted to this.
Assuming how the Republicans act, they are willing to call the entertainers and writers hypocrites because they work for Hollywood, Broadway and Silicon Valley. They ignore that these people work hard to make your favorite sitcoms, favorite game show, favorite radio program, favorite talk show, favorite late night program, favorite animation, favorite dramas and every motion picture.
Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery are refusing to negotiate with the unions. The strike is voted upon after talks failed.
The unions are asking for fair wages, more pay due to streaming, artificial intelligence and syndication rights.
Usual film sites like Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Austin have seen shutdowns of filming.
Promotion of films, television programs and events are no longer available.
Actors are not promoting upcoming movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Fran Drescher, current president of WGA-AFTRA has slammed network executives. The executives are claiming the networks are losing money. However, they are taking nine figure salaries. Some are actually taking joy in watching the actors, writers and costume makers suffer.
Drescher said actors were being “marginalised, disrespected and dishonored” by a business model that has been drastically changed by streaming and artificial intelligence.
“What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” she said.
“We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.
“I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history.”
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