Marion Massacre
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This is pretty cool
I’m not a member but only because we never drafted the papers. I intend to be once I move into my next apartment because we’ll be there for more than a year hopefully.
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Some nice games industry news for a change. Developers at Blizzard have formed a wall-to-wall union.
This is hot on the heels of developers at Bethesda doing the same.
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general strike that is actually being organized
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as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane
unions do so much more than just strike. unions bargain. unions sit in at meetings with upper management. unions help people navigate benefits. unions coordinate aid drives for disabled members. my union ran a donations campaign for me for the interim between the end of my allotted paid leave and my disability claim
"unionize your workplace" means so much more than "talk to your coworkers about striking." you gotta actively know what a union is and what a union isn't before you can form one. calls to unionize should lead to more people learning their rights and learning how unions work, and coordinating with orgs like seiu and the teamsters and the aft (and if you don't know what those are, look them up).
My union found me a legal expert to help me check over my last redundancy settlement for free, provided private medical cover whilst I was unemployed, and negotiated a good deal on cheap insurance for their members. It is so much more than strikes.
if you got a boss, join a union
if you're a student, start an underground paper
if you're an anarchist, throw a brick
Adam Conover: The writers strike is finally over. Here's what we won.
this is what cops actually protect and serve: capital.
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There have been a lot of strike-related posts about bad residual checks. This is a post about why residuals are so great for actors.
As many of my followers know, before I was a lawyer, I was an actor. I'm most known for playing Shelly, the chubby, hockey-mask-wearing prankster in Friday the 13th Part III. For that role (in 1982), I was paid SAG minimum of about $1000 a week for my 8 weeks of shooting (about $25k in 2023 dollars). For me, a college freshman at the time, that was a fortune. But, it gets better.
Two years earlier, SAG & AFTRA had gone on strike seeking residuals for home video and won. Thereafter, studios had to pay the actors a percentage of the money they received from home video revenue. When F13-III came out on home video, it must have done really well, because a year later, I received a check for $12,000 ($38,000 in 2023). That's right, I earned more from my first residual check than I did for filming the movie. This was only because the SAG AFTRA actors went on strike.
And every year after that, I continued to get residuals, it got less and less as the years go by, but it's still nothing to sneeze at. Just today, I got a SAG residual payment for $267 (and that's just for one quarter).
Now, I mostly gave up acting years ago. But you can see if you are a working actor with dozens of credits, the residuals can tide you over between jobs, which is necessary for working actors, who still have to study acting, voice, dance, improv, & movement, to remain at the peak of their profession (and pay the rent.) Without residuals, actors cannot remain in the profession. They couldn't afford it.
Those Actors who went on strike in 1980 (and 1960 and 2000) saved the industry. And they are doing the same now. The industry will die if the studios get their way, because they are so short-sighted they just care about the next quarterly profit and don't see how in a few years' time, there won't be any actors left because there won't be any way to make a living as an actor. #SAGAFTRAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike
Indie studios are meeting the demands of the unions and we're going to get a bunch of cool indie projects!