LogFAQs > #974895737

ReturnOfFa posted...

Hope the union doesn't back down. I've seen union negotations in a few different industries now, and it's fucking sad. They back down too easily. Corporations get a lot of extremely ambiguous language into their deals and have been hacking apart Union protections for decades.

Indeed. Luckily, the film unions are quite strong, and since this isn't over simple pay stuff, it's hard to see them caving. Caving means signing the death warrant for their job's relevancy, so striking indefinitely has the same end result. I'm mad still that my union, IATSE, didn't strike, and it was basically 50/50 and we barely passed the agreement. It was a good deal, true, but not the shake-up of the industry many of us wanted.

In fact, I can't help but feel the A.I. push has a hidden ploy in allowing the Studios to shape the narrative. There has been a push to change the industry to accept 10-hour days, and basically better working safe guards and pressure on the Studios/Creatives to get their shit together, since film work is a grueling and hard process. Now, ideas of even discussing that seem foreign.