https://deadline.com/2018/10/wga-wes...es-1202487960/
I went to a Guild meeting here in NYC and I am glad that they are promoting this, but I am also very skeptical unless agents, managers and lawyers get behind it.
To me that has been the #1 issue with sticking to guild rules: reps often HATE to bring this stuff up. They want to please the employer. they have MUCH more to lose by bringing up why you won't turn in a pitch document than just telling you to do so. Why? because there's 1000 other writers out there that wouldn't even blink at the idea of giving away free pages pre-contract. so the leverage on the employers part is... "everybody else does it" followed by "we'll get someone who isn't so difficult".
if we had a strong buffer of reps who KNOW the MBA, and understand what this means for us writers (basically not getting ****ed over), then all of this hardline stuff would work.
but it's doomed from the start when even our own representatives either go full Pontius Pilate on us ("it's up to you, buddy") or actively tell us to break guild rules ("all my other clients do it")
what do you guys think?
I went to a Guild meeting here in NYC and I am glad that they are promoting this, but I am also very skeptical unless agents, managers and lawyers get behind it.
To me that has been the #1 issue with sticking to guild rules: reps often HATE to bring this stuff up. They want to please the employer. they have MUCH more to lose by bringing up why you won't turn in a pitch document than just telling you to do so. Why? because there's 1000 other writers out there that wouldn't even blink at the idea of giving away free pages pre-contract. so the leverage on the employers part is... "everybody else does it" followed by "we'll get someone who isn't so difficult".
if we had a strong buffer of reps who KNOW the MBA, and understand what this means for us writers (basically not getting ****ed over), then all of this hardline stuff would work.
but it's doomed from the start when even our own representatives either go full Pontius Pilate on us ("it's up to you, buddy") or actively tell us to break guild rules ("all my other clients do it")
what do you guys think?
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