Hot union summer is ending…

…but the fight for worker power isn’t going anywhere.

From the Daily Kos:

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, but the summer’s big strikes are not ending. Hollywood writers and actors remain on strike since May and July, respectively, and Los Angeles hotel workers have held rolling strikes through the summer, with another kicking off as the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting arrives in town over the objections of many of its members.

Last week, late-night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon announced a podcast to support their staff during the writers’ strike. Also last week, Adam Driver — currently promoting a movie that has an interim agreement with the unions — called out big studios for refusing to make a fair deal. “Why is it that a smaller distribution company like Neon and STX International (distributors for ‘Ferrari’) can meet the dream demands of what SAG is asking for — this is pre-negotiations — the dream version of SAG’s wishlist, but a big company like Netflix and Amazon can’t,” Driver asked at the Venice Film Festival.

Driver’s question was presumably rhetorical, but just in case you need an answer, it’s that some companies are greedier than others, and Netflix and Amazon and the rest of the AMPTP studios are determined to break these strikes to keep more profits in the hands of the super-wealthy rather than paying writers and actors fairly.

It seems like the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have galvanized workers. Over the last several decades, the top 1% has taken over 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% of Americans.

It’s unfair. It’s inhumane. It’s despicable.

The AMPTP CEOs are part of that 1%. They appear to be blinded by greed. Why else would companies like Warner Bros. Discovery take a reported $300–500M loss from 2023 rather than settle with the WGA and pay $45M?

It makes no sense.

At some point, logic will prevail … and the writers and actors will prevail as long as we stay unified.

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