#2023 strikes

[iww-gnv]

Over twice as many workers hit the picket line last year as they did in 2022 — and you can thank actors, writers, and UAW members for the massive increase.  A new annual report from the Labor Action Tracker, compiled by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and the Labor and Employment Relations School at the University of Illinois, tracked work stoppages across the country.  The report finds that, in 2023, there were 470 work stoppages — 466 of which were strikes. In total, around 539,000 workers were involved in work stoppages last year. That’s up from around 224,000 in 2022. The report attributes that uptick to the sweeping, headline-making strikes by workers in Hollywood, the auto industry , theKaiser Permanente healthcare system, and Los Angeles schools. 

[astudyintheburningofhearts]

I may sound ignorant and like an all-round idiot, but could someone like explain the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that have been going on? Cuz I've been reading about them consistently, and I feel like I know the gist of it all- but I really wanna understand what exactly's happening- thanks (?)

[empirearchives]

Grande Armée, Défilé Rouen 2023

Statue of Napoleon in front of a protest in France as part of a series of general strikes and demonstrations against the 2023 French pension reform bill

Photo by Vincent Lebret

[songofwizardry]

i have some real bad news for Gavin about who exactly makes up the membership of a teaching union.

anyway. in case you needed more reasons to—support the NEU teachers' strikes!

[walks-the-ages]

If you uncritically reblog posts that contain "funny haha AI art this is so harmless and cute and funny haha look at this art of puppies in suits smoking cigars" then congrats you're literally the enemy and you do not actually support any of the workers who've been striking for 5 months.

You can't claim to support writers and artists and then turn around and support AI generated content created using stolen fucking art just because it's wacky/weird or some cats spelling out 'gay sex' and think it's somehow different or harmless if the content made with stolen art is funny or pandering to the queer community for click bait.

If you support the writers and artist strikes?

Stop fucking reblogging AI art

[intexda]

This is torture porn for him. He's enjoying watching everyone suffer over this as collective punishment for the strikes last year.

He doesn't actually want anyone to buy it from warner. He just wants to dangle bits of hope just out of reach of everyone involved in the movie to keep them biting. Slowly lowering it towards the tax shredder and pulling it away at the last second.

[yooka-kazooie]

Hey Hollywood / AMPTP / bigwig execs:

agree to WGA's demands you absolute chucklefucks

I need dumb late night talkshows to get News Updates in a way that doesn't destroy my mental health

(Obviously also they need to agree to all the unions's stuff happening rn including WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and *checks notes* the IATSE is now representing Marvel's VFX workers but I don't know if they've moved to start negotiating anything yet)

[jaspers47]

Perfection is the enemy of progress

Fran drescher opposes vaccine mandates just fyi

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 25, 2023 - Striking stuntman Mike Massa walks in the SAG-AFTRA picket line while on fire. [video]

[thefirsthogokage]

The. Deal. Is. So. Good.

Couldn't get the link to the side-by-side of the WGA offer, the AMPTP counter offer from May, and the final deal, because it's a document to download and too many pictures to take for this post that probably wouldn't be legible, but it's in this tweet (click the link below the tweet to go to said tweet):

Don't forget,the fight isn't over for SAG-AFTRA and next year, contracts are up again for IATSE, including The Animation Guild.

If you're a fan of movies, tv, and animation, keep helping the guilds fight the good fight!

Also, please support the other unions that are out their now fighting their own fights including Amazon workers, Local 11 in LA, and Flight Attendants!

And of course, big thanks to strike hero Drew Carey for paying for probably THOUSANDS of meals for striking writers in LA these past five months.

Congratulations WGA and Pre-WGA for your amazing wins with this contract!

[iww-gnv]

The number of striking U.S. workers more than doubled in 2023. Forget the "summer of strikes," 2023 was a full year of walkouts: The number of workers who walked off the job surged by 141% last year from 2022, per a report out Thursday morning. Why it matters: The strong labor market of the past few years fueled a rise in support for unions and worker organizing, emboldening organizers to take a harder line — pushing folks to the picket lines. The results were great for these workers — especially in the four biggest walkouts of the year, where they scored big double-digit raises, bonuses, better benefits, and other assorted goodies.

[victorian-nymph]

Something something a story in four parts

[songofwizardry]

bit hard to find coverage of the budget day strikes and rally yesterday, but here’s some aerial footage showing just how massive the rally was! (lots of pictures and videos from on the ground in the replies too) it was incredible to see the different sectors come together—the NEU group was massive, with teachers coming to london from far north and from the isle of wight, but we had junior doctors, tube staff, civil servants, etc… we strike together to win together! (and yet, not a word on public sector funding in the budget. unsurprising, but still.)

[jellybeanium124]

In the wake of the dual strike I would like to remind everyone that "hollywood elites" is an antisemitic dogwhistle and if you are referring to company executives call them executives

[buggotbrain]

and so it begins. May 1st, 2023.

[pedrohub]

PEDRO PASCAL and members of SAG-AFTRA continue to picket in support of the SAG-AFTRA strike at Warner Bros. Studios on September 26, 2023 in Burbank, California