WHO OWNS YOUR TALENT??? FORCED UNION STATES VS FREE RIGHT TO WORK STATES
ALL UNIONS MUST GO!!!! RIGHT TO WORK, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, STOP RESTRICTIONS OF FREE TRADE!!!!! NOT ALL STATES ARE FREE!!!
USE YOUR TALENT, WITHOUT LAWS AND RESTRICTION, OR FINES!!! ANY WAY ” YOU CHOOSE TO ” !!! http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
END… THE CONTROL OF,
MONOPOLIES AND UNION CONTROL OF THIS INDUSTRY!
RESPECT THE GUTS OF THE ”28” WHO WALKED AWAY FROM THE UNIONS, TO FACE THREATS LATER…FROM UNIONS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In a bitter footnote to the recent Hollywood writers strike, union leaders and studios clashed on Tuesday over the status of 28 writers who crossed picket lines during the walkout, most of them to work on soap operas.
The Writers Guild of America on Monday posted the names of the 28 scribes online along with an open letter ridiculing them for exercising their rights under U.S. labor to resign union membership while continuing to be covered by the WGA contract.
By declaring “financial core” status, those writers still pay union dues in return for guild representation. But they give up union voting privileges, the right to attend guild meetings, hold union office or otherwise participate in union activities.
All 28 writers singled out by the union filed for financial core to keep working during the 14-week strike by 10,500 WGA members that shut down much of the television industry and derailed numerous film projects, the guild said.
The majority of the writers named by the guild worked on various daytime television dramas, which managed to stay on the air with original episodes long after most prime-time shows had been forced out of production.
They “must be held at arm’s length by the rest of us and judged accountable for what they are — strikebreakers whose actions placed everything for which we fought so hard at risk,” the WGA letter said.
The letter drew a sharp rebuke on Tuesday from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the studios’ bargaining agent, accusing the WGA of violating labor law by “seeking to deny employment to these writers in the future.”
The producers alliance, which had encouraged writers to seek financial core status during the strike, said it has filed an unfair labor practices complaint against the union in response to the WGA’s letter.
The union fired back with its own statement, calling the studios’ charges “baseless” and branding them “an intrusion … into an internal union matter.”
“Contrary to the studios’ claim, the guild has not encouraged anyone to refuse to hire a resigned former member,” the WGA statement said.
The WGA walkout, which idled thousands of production workers and cost the local economy some $3 billion, ended February 12 after the two sides reached agreement on a deal giving writers more money for work distributed over the Internet.
But the possibility of further labor strife still hangs over Hollywood as the Screen Actors Guild enters the second week of its own contract negotiations with the major studios under a strict media blackout.
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PUT YOUR CAREER, BUSINESS AND TALENT…BACK IN YOUR OWN HANDS. STOP LETTING MASS STUPIDITY RUIN YOUR LIVES, WITH OLD LAWS, HIDDEN AGENDAS, AND LIES… TRUTH SPEAKS OUT!!! LISTEN TO FACTS!!!!!!! SAVE THE ARTS!!!!!
WGA Emails….
‘The Playbook Of The AMPTP’
IN THEIR OWN WORDS…………………….
There are so many “internal” emails and memos being issued from both the WGA and AMPTP in recent days that it’s hard to keep pace with them all. But I’ll try. Here’s a new one from WGA board member Tom Schulman that just went out to writers:
The Playbook of the AMPTP
Fellow Members,
A few years ago, I was on the WGA Negotiating Committee. As negotiations with the AMPTP were drawing to a close, I went to a dinner party where I happened to be seated next to a gentleman who until recently had been for decades the chief negotiator for the Companies in another segment of the entertainment industry. He was a wiry guy, and he had a sense of humor. When I asked him if he was the Nick Counter of that particular part of the industry, he smiled and said wryly that he thought he was better than Nick but, yes, that was a fair comparison. He said he knew Nick and admired him. For an hour and a half, sprinkled in with the small talk, he told me about his negotiating strategy. After the party, I went to my car and jotted down as much of it as I could remember. I thought it might be useful to share it with you now:
Strategy for Hardball Negotiations:
Piss off the leaders and spokespersons for the other side. A leader who loses his temper loses something in negotiations. Why?
1) Anger clouds judgment.
2) It’s human nature to want to be liked, even in a tough-as-nails negotiator. A person who loses his temper is embarrassed, usually comes and apologizes, and always gives something away to get back into the good graces of the other side.
The end game is the money, but hardball negotiations aren’t about money, until the end. The real game is dividing and conquering.
Tactics:
* Lower the expectations of the other side, divide and conquer.
* Raise and lower the expectations of the other side, divide and conquer.
* Do everything possible to destroy the credibility of the other side’s leadership, divide and conquer.
* Use confidants and back channels to go over the heads of the stronger leaders to the softer targets. Divide and conquer.
* When you figure out the other side’s bottom line, offer a fraction. It’s surprising how many times that stands.
Sound familiar? If you examine the recent “leaks,” comments, and press releases from the other side, you’ll realize this is exactly the strategy the Companies are employing against us today. And why not? It’s worked for them for the last 20 years! They are putting us on an emotional roller coaster by raising and lowering our expectations, attacking our leaders, trying to pit the town against us, refusing to move on the issues that matter to us, bragging about their generosity when the opposite is true, fear mongering and claiming we’re going to ruin this industry – hoping we’ll splinter, lose faith in and attack each other, negotiate against ourselves, and cave.
As events unfold in the next several days and weeks, we should have no doubt about what the Companies are really up to and what to expect from them. But this time, in every way possible, we must let them know we’re on to them and their strategy won’t work. We understand their game, our solidarity and resolve are greater than ever, and we’re going to stay strong – and reasonable – until we get a fair deal.
Let’s return to the picket lines every day with a powerful show of force. As Patric says, we’re all in this together.
Tom Schulman
WGAW Board of Directors
POLITICS …AND, GREED TO HAVE TOTAL – $$$$$$$$ CONTROL…OF THIS INDUSTRY, AND THE CREATIVE TALENT. THESE UNIONS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING THIS BUSINESS,,,,ONE UNION CHOKE-HOLD, … AT A TIME. EVEN, THE UNIONS THEMSELVES, ARE FIGHTING, SCHEMING, USING RUTHLESS TACTICS, TO GAIN MORE CONTROL………
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
FIGHT FOR YOUR ” REAL RIGHTS ” TO BE INDEPENDENT FROM UNION CONTROL, OF YOUR WORK, CAREERS, AND MONEY!!!!
TIME HERE IS SHORT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, HERE’S WHAT A UNION DOES, TO WASTE YOUR LIFE!!!!
RESPECT TO THE ”28” WHO TOOK THEIR SOULS BACK,,,,,,,,,,,,,, FROM UNION HELL
FREE OUR INDUSTRY, AND ARTISTIC CREATIVE TALENT, FROM OLD MAFIA BASED 1930′S LAWS….
THAT HAVE HAD CONTROL, WAY TOO LONG,,,IN THIS BUSINESS. HOW MANY CAREERS RUINED FOREVER??
ASK, GEORGE LUCAS, AND COPPOLA, WHY..THEY
REALLY MADE ”FOG CITY MAVERICKS” ?????
3 MORE YEARS……….. NEW DEAL WITH THE xxxxxxxx BUT,,,,,,,,,,,,, IN OTHER PARTS
OF THE BIZ……………FINALLY!!!! SOMEONE HAD GUTS..TO STEP OUT OF THE UNION CAVEMEN*TALITY …BESIDES ME.ASK TARANTINO, AND RODRIGUEZ,,,,,,WHY, THEY KEEP……….
THEIR MAIN COMPANIES , & FILM PROJECTS IN TEXAS??? BECAUSE AS A ”RIGHT TO WORK STATE” THEY CAN HIRE WHOM THEY WISH, THE BEST TALENT, UNION OR NOT ……WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS OF UNIONS SCREWING UP THEIR WORK!!!!!!!!!!!
FREEDOM OF THE ARTS, FINALLY,,,,,,,,, GET IT????
YES, I WRITE IN CAPS!!! AND, I ALWAYS WILL!!!
GET THE ” F ” OVER IT!!!
WHO MAKES THESE STUPID RULES FOR INTERNET OR WRITING ???
EXECUTIVE MEMO: SAVE YOUR EYESIGHT – CAPS ARE GOOD, IF I’M YELLING, I’LL BOLD IT FOR YOU DIEHARD-BRAINWASHED ASSES!!!
TO THE GOD OF INTERNET ”ETIQUETTE ACTUALLY THE GOD OF STUPID RULES… BITE ME!
THANK YOU.