Ultimately the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes will be resolved and settled. The pressure on the producers is tremendous and will continue to increase the longer that there is no resolution. But the actors, writers, and artists also are at risk. There are significant pay, perhaps residuals, perhaps long-term job security, and perhaps industry or individual economic business viability issues.
A contract of relatively short duration and then with longer term negotiations would be easiest, if the parties will do so in earnest. This is an industry that seems to be in a state of relatively constant significant change and possible disruption risk – AI is only one of the most recent possible disruptors and AI is just getting started – although there might be current efforts to delay AI, I just do not see it as stopping, and any segment of any industry that does temporarily delay AI is at risk from possible other outside existing third party disruptors, or new disruptors. There is risk for everyone who is involved in this industry, both short-term and long-term.
There will be a settlement. But everyone will remain in ongoing future risk – thus, although perhaps difficult to structure, a longer mid-term agreement that also recognizes existing and later new and perhaps unknown changes, risks and disruption in the industry would be best. But for that, there must also be a level of trust – thus, although to a certain extent inevitable, hopefully conduct such as name calling, hyperbole, or argument gimmicks or distortion will be kept to a minimum.
The following is a scan from the SAG-AFTRA website – I am sure that consider of the issues that are involved actually started longer ago (and the Writers Guild strike itself started back on May 2), but four weeks of negotiations is not very long for any of the parties, and they must keep at the efforts to resolve these disputes, as I resume that the parties are in fact doing and are being encouraged:
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