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Posted on 11-27-07 03:36:15 PM Link | Quote
I know I saw a thread on this, but I can't seem to find it...so here's another one. Just wanted to get this rant out there....

I typed this out after seeing a few videos on You Tube...especially this one. My comment is too long to be posted there, but I didn't want to delete it so I'm going to post it in a few places.

I wonder if that ABC cameraman will lose his job soon because of this strike. Wonder if he'll be okay with it. When he loses his job, will he have to worry about money? And these writers, while on strike, they're not working...do they have to worry about money and their bills? Now ask someone who works hard and gets paid little what if they go on strike..will they get more money? Of course not. They'll be fired for not working and their situation will get worse. This strike pisses me off. I think both sides are in the wrong but both sides get paid enough to where they are financially stable. I say the working class should go on strike...what will happen then? And I am talking about those people who get paid minimal wage. People who work 50+ hours but only get paid for 44 hours, people in retail, who, for the most part, have to work holidays, have to work extra hours and have less time to spend with families and friends and still get paid the same. Where will these writer's get their wood if Home Depot is closed. No one at Kinkos to make their signs..and no one at Starbucks to give them their coffee. Poor babies need more money so they can fly in comfort to California when there's people who can't even afford to take time off to visit family that's two hours away. Writers are not the victims here, they are not the little people, the people who watch these shows to unwind after a hard day of work are the ones being screwed over.

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Posted on 11-27-07 06:23:13 PM (last edited by Apophis at 11-27-07 03:23 PM) Link | Quote
1) They can't be fired because they're in the union.
2) They are still making residuals off of reruns.


That's part of why they're striking. They get paid every time their work airs, but they aren't getting anything from DVD sales or web streams. They're right to strike over the DVDs. The DVDs are generating revenue for the studios off of their work and they aren't getting anything.

As for streaming episodes online, I view that as being equivalent to people checking out a book from the library. They shouldn't get money for each time an episode is streamed, but they should get some sort of one time payment every time the episode is added to a site for streaming (which I see as equivalent to the library's buying a copy of a book and making it available to the public).
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Posted on 11-27-07 06:52:19 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 11-27-07 10:45:11 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Apophis
1) They can't be fired because they're in the union.
Except a whole bunch of stage crew people were fired because of the strike, so uh...

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Posted on 11-27-07 11:55:35 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by NightKev
Originally posted by Apophis
1) They can't be fired because they're in the union.
Except a whole bunch of stage crew people were fired because of the strike, so uh...



That is completely unrelated. I was respoding to

Originally posted by Anya
Now ask someone who works hard and gets paid little what if they go on strike..will they get more money? Of course not. They'll be fired for not working and their situation will get worse.
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The fact is, they cannot fire people for being part of a union-organized strike. The people you mentioned aren't part of the union that is on strike.
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Posted on 11-28-07 07:37:22 AM Link | Quote
11-28-07 01:37:22am
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I hope they succeed, unions shouldn't be all-powerful, but their existence at a moderate level helps to prevent abuses to employees by big corporations.

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Posted on 11-29-07 11:37:27 AM Link | Quote
Ω > U
Looks like it's over...

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Posted on 11-29-07 12:06:22 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Ω Hiryuu
Looks like it's over...

I think that's an entirely different strike, judging from it.

It deals with stagehands and other similar crew, not writers. It also seems to have been focused in New York, wheras the writer's strike was in the Los Angeles area.

That's just what I get out of it, though.

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