this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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They're striking. Collective bargaining negotiations broke down with the studios ostensibly negotiating in bad faith. It started with the Writer's Guild, and then SAG jumped in after the studios basically told the WGA to go piss up a rope.
Thanks, but what started these strikes in the first place? Was there a key event that started this whole thing?
I believe it was a regularly scheduled contract negotiation (because the previous contract was about to expire), and no agreement was reached for the terms of the new contract.
Streaming doesn't pay enough residuals. So companies just keep all the money instead of fairly paying the artists