The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
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What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
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What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
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How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
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Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
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The Actors Walk
The strike of SAG-AFTRA highlights a summer of workers’ pushback against a finance-driven economy.
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Pickets on the Fourth in the City of Angels
Today on TAP: The Los Angeles summer of strikes is a declaration of independence.
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What’s Turned Hollywood Stars Into Labor Militants
Today on TAP: Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, and 1,000 other disgruntled actors tell their union not to meet the studios halfway.
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L.A.’s Summer of Solidarity
Reaching across diverse backgrounds and kinds of work, thousands of union members are sharing strategy and stories of the struggle to live and work in Los Angeles.
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Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?
How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike