A long-term strike is expected because most of the technology originating from the streaming company, which is the target of negotiations, is not affiliated with the union, saying that the strike in association with Hollywood’s Actors Guild and Writers Guild is “sharing future profits.”
Regarding the strikes of actors and writers, the history of the American labor movement, the Associated Press said, “For decades, strikes have erupted at regular intervals.” It was diagnosed on the 18th as a strike on the method of sharing the profits that are created.
“The 2023 strike represents a return to more fundamental concerns about working conditions and existential concerns about the future of the industry,” Kate Fort Mouleyeo, a professor of film and media history at Georgia State University who specializes in Hollywood labor history, told the Associated Press.
During the 154-day, longest strike in 1988, the main issue of the writers' strike was the sharing of profits between writers and actors in the residual revenues of TV shows sold to foreign markets, and the agreement resulted in "more creative control over scripts and more freedom from original screenplays." A salary increase was obtained by stipulating “reacquisition”, and union negotiators struck a deal that resulted in higher payments for overseas market reruns.
The Writers' Guild of America merged with the Screen Actors Guild and the Screen Writers Guild, both founded in 1933, and SAG-AFTRA secured the remainder of the televised profits that began to prevalent in the 1953 strike.
The 100-day writers' strike from 2007 to 2008, against the rise of the digital age, included in contracts residual payout compensation for 'digitally distributed shows and films', leaving writers and actors with no jurisdiction over projects made for the Internet. secured
The writers' union's new contract stipulates in the labor contract "setting compensation for ad-supported streaming programs" and "sharing residual increments of downloaded programs and movies."
In 1981, the Writers Guild went on strike for 96 days, and the Actors Guild went on strike for 77 days in 1980.
The strike was a negotiation between writers and actors on the “share” of “producer profits” in the rapidly growing home video pay TV market, and was settled with a base salary increase.
In separate strikes by writers and actors at staggered intervals, actors and writers demanded a portion of the revenue generated from the video market by the rapidly growing boom of video and cassettes and set up a distribution system.
In the early 1980s, as hardline conservatives became mainstream in the Reagan Republican system, the American Federation of Musicians following SAG AFTRA struck on the same issue.
In a long strike, the Actors Guild negotiated and signed a contract on pay TV, the first in the industry, but the Musicians' Federation could not secure profit sharing despite the 167-day strike.
In 1973, when the Ian Writers Guild went on strike on the 111th, a contract was signed with the remaining wages compensated for the movies aired on cassette and EuroTV in response to the demand for a “salary increase” and welfare benefits.
The AP reported that while the 1973 writers' strike technically lasted 16 weeks, it did not halt work throughout the entire period, and rather than a blow to the expansion into soap operas and variety shows, more than 50 'independent producers' who controlled more than 150% of primetime television, created a new It opened the era of signing contracts.
The Associated Press said, "Although he led the negotiations at SAG, Ronald Reagan represented fellow actors at the negotiating table alongside Oscar winner Charlton Heston and others. Reagan, who became president in 1981, became the first U.S. president in U.S. labor history to fire thousands of air traffic controllers during strikes. He became known as one of the most toxic people.”
An Associated Press article reporting on the Actors Guild's announcement of the initial settlement in the 1960s strike reported public opinion on the strike as "unique in the history of labor because the millionaires sided with labor as much as with management."
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, current SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator, said at a press conference last week: "This is the first SAG-AFTRA strike in an agreement that has been going on for over 40 years." "It's a union, but we're not afraid to go on strike if it's necessary to ensure that our members get fair contracts," he said.
When negotiations with the Federation of Film and TV Producers (AMPTP), which represents large studios, broke down, the writers' union started a strike on May 2nd, and SAG-AFTRA went on strike on the 14th.