Re: Writers Strike - Is it going to have an effect on TV sho
PrettyEyes said:
An old Union ploy is to go into the negotiatons asking for way more than you actually want, so then, after the negotiations have occurred and all has been agreed, there's a good chance that you'll get the PTBs to agree to something nearer to what you actually wanted and not what was intially proposed.
I think that's why on many occasions when such things as this writers strike occurs, there will seem to be compromises being made, but in reality there hasn't been any.
( If that makes any sense at all
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It made perfect sense. Each side always asks for more than what it wants. That way when a side makes a "concession" during negotiations it's not really "conceding" anything (or it's conceding a minor point). It's happy with what's agreed to. Usually, though, in contract negotiations, neither side wins nor loses completely.
Phew! Glad that made sense. I had to re-read it about a dozen times because I wasn't sure, but then I couldn't think of any other way of putting it - chuckle.
And, yeah, there's always lot of postering done by both sides, trying to win the bleeding hearts vote and what not, but in reality the Unions are as shrewd as the Corporations.
Still, in my opinion, the difference in this case at least, is that the Writers Union has my vote because what's being asked for is not so much of a dent on what the distribution Corporations/Networks make out of the shows that the writers write for anyway. In my opinion, it never is, to be honest, and it always feels to me as if it's the insatiable Corporate Greed that grinds everything to a halt and strings these things along.
I mean, I know they have to make a stand for their own rights, but the time that it takes for them to come to some sort of agreement would be more understandable to me if the requests made by the Writers Union had been completely unreasonable, but when you calculate just one show's profit margin for the Corporations involved up against what was proposed by the Writers Union, then what was proposed was just pennies in comparison.
All in all, the Writers Union may come out of this looking like bastards, especially if favourite shows get canned because of it, but they're not really because this could and I think should have been resolved some time ago by the Corporates.
...I mean, talk about "cutting off your nose to spite your face". Will the Corporates never learn that in all honesty it is a symbiotic relationship where neither can do without the other? I don't think so...
...Just an opinion...
