In IATSE’s case a few years ago, our (corrupt) leadership sold us on the lie that it was an “unprecedented contract” and helps all kinds of protected groups while, in reality, it was a huge pay cut when compared with inflation with inclusivisty initiatives tacked on to help them woke-wash their austerity.
There are so many things in the corporatist playbook that it’s no wonder we get poorer and poorer while the studios try to starve us out of striking.
Yup. They wait for you to organize, because they have a million strategies to corrupt the head of the organization and make it more beneficial to themselves in the end
IATSE’s 2016 back room decision to endorse of Hillary Clinton EARLY in the primary without so much as a peep to the membership.
2020’s @iastories instagram that was a firebrand radical instance of union members sharing real stories about horrific filmmaking conditions suddenly changed their tune and stopped allowing comments a week before a strike authorization would go up for a vote.
So long as they can pay bills during that time.
The strike did not help writers as much as it’s pretending it did
In IATSE’s case a few years ago, our (corrupt) leadership sold us on the lie that it was an “unprecedented contract” and helps all kinds of protected groups while, in reality, it was a huge pay cut when compared with inflation with inclusivisty initiatives tacked on to help them woke-wash their austerity.
There are so many things in the corporatist playbook that it’s no wonder we get poorer and poorer while the studios try to starve us out of striking.
Yup. They wait for you to organize, because they have a million strategies to corrupt the head of the organization and make it more beneficial to themselves in the end
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IATSE’s 2016 back room decision to endorse of Hillary Clinton EARLY in the primary without so much as a peep to the membership.
2020’s @iastories instagram that was a firebrand radical instance of union members sharing real stories about horrific filmmaking conditions suddenly changed their tune and stopped allowing comments a week before a strike authorization would go up for a vote.