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Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it.

To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”


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The important part here is that people are openly admitting off-the-record to reporters that they're violating US labor law, by trying to bust the union via retaliatory bad-faith negotiation that would coerce the union members into giving in and breaking the union's backbone. US law prohibits retaliation against unions, full stop, even if enforcement is historically lax. The AMPTP official statement that “these anonymous people are not speaking on behalf of the AMPTP or member companies” is their legal counsel trying to avoid enforcement action against them.

this is pure speculation on my part so take it with a big grain of salt, but I'm guessing this was likely an indirect attempt at scaring SAG-AFTRA, as it's looking possible they may be going on strike very soon as well since talks are (last I've heard) still ongoing even though the deadline is looming.

I really wonder how much of this is "a bluff because when media companies start having bad quarters, CEOs get fired". Since after all, there's no reason to contact the trades to announce "we're ghouls" because executives just act like ghouls all the time in many industries without telling anybody, unless you want to appear magnanimous when you act slightly less ghoulish.

"because when media companies start having bad quarters, CEOs get fired" is rather the point, I think: no corporate executive wants to be the one who gets sacrificed if the hardball tactics don't actually yield the desired results, so that motivates them to play the game even rougher and more ruthlessly. emotionally, it'll be seen as the writers' fault for putting the executives in a bind.

"because when media companies start having bad quarters, CEOs get fired" is rather the point, I think: no corporate executive wants to be the one who gets sacrificed if the hardball tactics don't actually yield the desired results, so that motivates them to play the game even rougher and more ruthlessly. emotionally, it'll be seen as the writers' fault for putting the executives in a bind.

NAIVE ALERT. NAIVE ALERT. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. NAIVE ALERT. NAIVE ALERT. (please educate me if this is a bad idea or pat me on the head and call me a good girl if it sounds good)

If I were The Writers I would get into talks with Nebula, CuriosityStream, Dropout, Mubi, Shudder, Indie Flix, The Stream Detective, and more. People with pockets that aren't so deep might be very eager to get some industry veteran talent, and it might frighten netflix disney hulu etc. It would be a tremendous drop in revenue for the writers and the WGA but that's what they're already looking at.