Welcome to the first post on Divided Hollywood. In the days, weeks and months to come (and the strike will be MONTHS, if the WGA is left to its own devices), we will be posting news, notes, stories and videos about the WGA strike and how it affects Working Hollywood -- the "below-the-line" crew members who did not choose the financial turmoil that has been foisted upon us by the Writer's walkout.
This strike is good for no one, least of all the "little guy." Much was made of the 90.3 yea vote for a strike by the Writers during the last week of October. But if you had opened up the vote to all of Hollywood, that number would have been WAY lower.
The creators of this site want to make very clear one fact -- we actually SUPPORT the WGA and its Membership in their pursuit of fair compensation in the form of higher residuals and a fair percentage of for-profit internet content delivery. We just FIRMLY believe that a strike, at this time and in the current manner, is dangerously short-sighted and ill-advised.
Gazing into the crystal ball, we fear that this strike will not be resolved for months, and only when the Writers eventually accept a deal that could just as easily been reached without a work stoppage. Maybe we're wrong. We'll see.
Finally, we ask that picketing writers stop claiming that their strike will eventually benefit all of us. These claims are, at best, delusional and, at worst, flat out lies. This strike hurts everyone in the short term. And in the long term, we working-class crewmembers will not receive any benefit. In all likelihood, we will find that our next bargaining session will gain nothing, as too much of the pie will have been handed out to the above-the-line guilds.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
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