How Many Strikes Until We're Out?
April 30th, 2001
Tell me, tell me how a strike would be beneficial to us, the writers on the low, very low, end of the food chain? Plain and simple, it wouldn't. But, if we ever made it to the A-list end, then, maybe we'd feel different. This isn't 1988, there will be no spec script bonanza waiting for us.
Talks between representatives of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended over the weekend without resolution.
All of L.A. is preparing for the worse. Recently Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan launched a mini-campaign to point out the effects WGA and SAG strikes would have. Riordan's study indicated that in the worst-case scenario, a significant strike of several months or more would cost the city nearly 130,000 jobs and $7 billion.
As we know, it's the little guy who has the most to lose, and who always has the lessor voice. "About 70% of SAG members make less than $7,500 a year from acting, and although the median salary of Hollywood writers was $84,000 last year, nearly half of the union's members were unemployed (last year.)" (USA Today)
If it were up to the eighty-four-thousand-dollar per year screenwriter, there would be no doubts, no strike. All that is left to do now is hope and pray that there is no strike.
-- Chris
Talks between representatives of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended over the weekend without resolution.
All of L.A. is preparing for the worse. Recently Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan launched a mini-campaign to point out the effects WGA and SAG strikes would have. Riordan's study indicated that in the worst-case scenario, a significant strike of several months or more would cost the city nearly 130,000 jobs and $7 billion.
As we know, it's the little guy who has the most to lose, and who always has the lessor voice. "About 70% of SAG members make less than $7,500 a year from acting, and although the median salary of Hollywood writers was $84,000 last year, nearly half of the union's members were unemployed (last year.)" (USA Today)
If it were up to the eighty-four-thousand-dollar per year screenwriter, there would be no doubts, no strike. All that is left to do now is hope and pray that there is no strike.
-- Chris
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