Strikes, in my opinion, are the beauty of a civilized society and the true genius of unions. They long ago abandoned asking for exactly what they've wanted. They dropped nine of their original demands, and right before the strike started, in an effort to try to stop it, they even withdrew their request for a increase from $0.04 per DVD to $0.08... all they were asking for in the end were rights to online content, so they don't get fucked like they did in the 80s, and the studios still weren't willing to give it to them. That doesn't sound like too much to me.
If the studios knew that they depended on the writers, it wouldn't have come to this. It may seem like a temper tantrum, but the writers are being shit all over. If the studios don't recognize that writers are important enough to deserve this raise, then they have no option but to show them how important they are. In any other job, if you thought you were important enough to deserve a raise that your company wasn't giving you, you would look for a place that would pay you what you deserve and either find a new job, or use the offer as a bargaining chip. The writers have no place else to go, they can't go look for new jobs, there's only one industry, that's why unions are so great, and that's why they have to be on strike right now.
If the studios knew that they depended on the writers, it wouldn't have come to this. It may seem like a temper tantrum, but the writers are being shit all over. If the studios don't recognize that writers are important enough to deserve this raise, then they have no option but to show them how important they are. In any other job, if you thought you were important enough to deserve a raise that your company wasn't giving you, you would look for a place that would pay you what you deserve and either find a new job, or use the offer as a bargaining chip. The writers have no place else to go, they can't go look for new jobs, there's only one industry, that's why unions are so great, and that's why they have to be on strike right now.
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