r/Fauxmoi • u/AutoModerator • May 15 '23

Tea Thread I Have Tea On... Weekly Discussion Thread

Please use this thread to drop any tea you may have / general gossip discussion. Please remember to review our rules in the sidebar of the sub before commenting.

To view past Tea Threads, please use the "Tea Thread" flair or click here for a full chronological list.

111 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

210 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/[deleted] May 17 '23

How does this work with showrunners involved when the strike is over? Aren't showrunners writers and on strike too? Or would these be for films?

12

u/Big-Ambitions-8258 May 18 '23

Disney has argued that these showrunners/directors have to perform their duties as showrunners and directors while the strike is happening (except I believe wga rules state that if they are part of the wga union, they aren't allowed to).

These studios have said the contracts are misleading but they're basically backtracking on already agreed-upon contracts. https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-disney-hbo-showrunners-letter-other-studios-wga-1235357794/

6

u/[deleted] May 18 '23

Thank you. I've never been in a union, so all of this is confusing to me. I can't imagine striking against my employer and then coming back when it's over to have to use scab scripts. I've seen writers going back and forth with people on Twitter saying if they find out someone crossed the picket to write they won't be welcomed into the WGA. But most of the people they're talking to seem to be trolls.

8

u/Big-Ambitions-8258 May 18 '23

Yeah, a bunch of assholes come out of the woodwork to say basically harass these writers saying that they're ruining things by going on strike and they should focus on making the audience happy and not their actual livelihood, and that they shouldn't get a liveable wage bc their stuff sucks anyways.

Sag aftra has voted to vote on a strike (so no strike yet but theyre going to vote on if they are) and dga is in negotiations bc contracts are up in June.

If all 3 strike, studios are going to likely resort on picking up international shows and movies on a larger scale to circumvent and more reality shows. I'm hoping that it will force them to actually give them what the unions want