Hollywood Unions: Why This is Their Fight Too

An explanation as to why all Hollywood Unions have a stake in the current Writers Strike.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WGA
• Writers
• Strike
• Union
• IATSE
• Teamster
• residual
• health
• insurance
• pension

[ibearbadnews]

i heard they're building a new video sharing site geared towards complete tools and general dumbasses. you should look into it.

[Lonewolfjedi]

This vid is very informative, all who dont know much about the strike should see this

[laerwen]

"Writers are Terrorists"

If people know the nature of the business when they enter, how can they complain that ALL of the unions are interdependent? If another union went on strike, the writers would be dependent upon them in another way. Your argument is a failure in logic.

[QuoterGal]

Um... that the average person tends to be superficial and run away from anything that's not a train wreck or a skiing monkey? That would be my take on it...

[pjohnson52]

YO WRITERSSUCK . COM

[pjohnson52]

THE WGA IS DONE! LOL!!!!!!

they're union is going to literally collapse due to the fact some of them are striking and some are working! what kind of solidarity does that show!

[Pervenche09]

Director Guild already made and agreement with AMPTP....near six months before the contra expires for them.....lets see if wga can do the same!!! DGA,org to see details of deal made

[NolaO]

I SORT OF see what they're saying in this video, but I think it's a bit simplistic and not totally convincing, especially considering writers get Motion Picture Health benefits AND actual residuals for their work. The reality is as pjohnson52 states: if we don't make our hours in a 6 month period, we lose our benefits.

[brother728]

This video is good until it makes the claim of "no health plan" "no pension fund." With that it takes on the same credibility issues as a Roger Moore "film."

[pjohnson52]

I guess the writers have given up since obviously they know they're losing alotta ground daily.

[camshaff]

Have you noticed that Chris Crocker asking the media to leave Britianny alone has gotten more than 10 times as many views as all 93 WGA videos combined? There is a reason for this, I'll let you figure it out.

[pjohnson52]

IATSE crew doesnt get benefits if they don't meet the required hours which they can't because their production and job is being held hostage by a striking writers guild.

Writers are Terrorists.