myrmepropagandist

If you’re on strike and it’s disrupted things for “regular people” just know that there are a lot of us rooting for you— We get it. Media aren’t being very supportive framing the strike as all the fault of workers— as if we all have to take whatever we are offered & be silent.

The mood is different in the country than it was 15 or 30 years ago— No one is buying that striking workers are greedy. We’re all in this same race to the bottom and it’s good to see people fighting the current.

Jul 20, 2023 at 6:49pmWeb
Show threadTanquistJul 20, 2023
@futurebird
It's pretty obvious that those who own the media are not concerned about #WorkingClass people.
Show threadapophisJul 20, 2023
@tanquist @futurebird it's surprisingly hard to even get them to realize they're capable of thinking they could or should https://mycrowd.ca/notice/AXtbjDW4hwonQVDWCG
trophallaxis of evil (@[email protected])

@futurebird their experience with "child labour" is their kid working a summer part time job at their cousin's store/law office/whatever for some extra spending money

Show threadGraveRobynJul 20, 2023
@apophis @tanquist @futurebird
Notice we don't call them journalists any more.
Show threadJo ♀️🐈🐈‍⬛🛍️🌛🥂Jul 20, 2023
@futurebird 💯 #solidarity
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Jul 20, 2023

@futurebird

Agreed! It is all of US in the end!

Show threadAmberJul 20, 2023
@futurebird it was not the smartest choice to openly admit that you can wait till your employees are getting evicted from their homes. Not a level of contempt for your employees has ever been so public
Show thread@batyalee 🌿Jul 21, 2023
@PartlyNeedful @futurebird It certainly lets us all know where they stand. Sadly, I don’t know that most people who love their TVs and streaming services really care. But in case they do care enough to help in some way, is there something the regular viewing public can do?
Show threadSamHughesJul 20, 2023
@futurebird Obviously you are not a business person who has employees and requires a steady flow of merchandise to maintain the business.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistJul 20, 2023

@Nostradamus

Is that you?

Show threadMrDJul 20, 2023
@futurebird couldn't have said it better.
Time for a national strike in my opinion
Show threadStuartBJul 20, 2023
@futurebird
One of the local bus companies is on strike tomorrow - instead of getting a bus from the end of my road at 630 in the morning, which drops me off several towns away at 7.20, in time to get another bus to work for 8, I'll be leaving the house at 545 to walk 2 1/2 miles in the wrong direction to get a bus at 630 in the middle of nowhere, dropping me off I'm Manchester at 710, then another bus from there to work.
And I'm still solidly behind the drivers.
Show threadJargogglesJul 20, 2023
@futurebird
For sure. I don't blame the mailman for bringing me bad news, either.
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Jul 20, 2023
@futurebird Yes absolutely. Our post-Covid rural lifestyle involves a considerable amount of online ordering with frequent delivery from four or five different vendors via diverse carriers including UPS. If UPS strikes strong and hard it's going to be a major pain in the ass for us. But no actual hardship, and we are rooting for the drivers.
Show threadKyleDuyck 🐢Jul 21, 2023
@futurebird is the media portraying it as greed? I've only heard it's the streaming / legacy networks who are being greedy about it...
Show threadKimberleyJul 21, 2023
@futurebird Absolutely! I don't care how inconvenient it gets, I hope striking workers never let that be used as leverage against their best interests and hold their ground until they get a fair deal.
Show threadOutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️Jul 21, 2023

@futurebird
Two words: "ON DEMAND".

It's a great time to catch up on all the movies and TV series' I haven't had time to watch. You know, the ones with real people in the background.

 

#SAGAFTRA #WGA #strike #GreedSucks

Show threadNot A BirdJul 21, 2023
@futurebird Media is never a friend of working class. #workersrights #capitalistmedia
Show threadMarcus AdamsJul 21, 2023
@futurebird UPS drivers don't even have air conditioning, at least around here, and it gets absolutely miserable in the summer.
Show thread@batyalee 🌿Jul 21, 2023

@futurebird I just read the Wikipedia entry for the new #Oppenheimer movie, directed by Christopher Nolan. To ensure a secure financial gain from making the movie, Nolan bailed on his long-time studio Warner Bros because he didn’t want the movie released on streaming concurrently with the theaters. He settled on Universal Studios because they "agreed to Nolan's stipulations, which included a production budget of $100 million, an equal marketing budget, an exclusive theatrical window ranging from 90–120 days, 20% of the film's first-dollar gross, and a 3-wk period before and after the film's release in which Universal could not release another new film." He also negotiated the big name cast members to accept "$4 million each in lieu of their usual $10–20 million salaries."

If SAG-AFTRA and WGA can negotiate with media corporations as well as Nolan, they might have a chance of turning their fortunes back around for the better. That’s a very, very big IF.

Show threadwibbleJul 21, 2023

@futurebird As war is always a political failure, so strikes are always a managerial failure.

It is literally the job of managers to manage workers, and that includes pre-empting and addressing concerns before they become disputes. That's hard, but it's why managers get the big money, and if they can't manage to do it, then, well...