Great listen. Thanks. Though I think your being generous calling “woke” a culture. It’s an dangerous ideology. That has stopped us ( and the studios) being allowed to laugh at ourselves, which is the fabric of great comedy. Just as Ronald Reagan did all those years ago.
WGA-E has contracts with some production outfits that include these positions as being under the WGA-E:
“recognizes the Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. (the “Guild” or the “Union”) as the exclusive collective bargaining representative within the meaning of Section 9(a) of the National Labor Relations Act of a unit of full-time and part-time employees employed by the Production Subsidiaries to produce long form audio-visual content for distribution by third party distributors in the following job titles and those performing the same or similar work: AP/Research, Associate Producer, AP Specialist, Archival Producer, Art Director, Junior Archival, Post AP, Post Coordinator, Post Production Assistant, Production Assistant, Producer, Show Runner, Sr. Producer/Writer, Supervising Producer, GFX Designer, GFX Tech, GFX Artist, Motion GFX Editor, Jr. Graphic Freelance Designer, Motion Graphics, Story Producer.”
This is going to impact documentaries and reality-based.
Great listen. Thanks. Though I think your being generous calling “woke” a culture. It’s an dangerous ideology. That has stopped us ( and the studios) being allowed to laugh at ourselves, which is the fabric of great comedy. Just as Ronald Reagan did all those years ago.
WGA-E has contracts with some production outfits that include these positions as being under the WGA-E:
“recognizes the Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. (the “Guild” or the “Union”) as the exclusive collective bargaining representative within the meaning of Section 9(a) of the National Labor Relations Act of a unit of full-time and part-time employees employed by the Production Subsidiaries to produce long form audio-visual content for distribution by third party distributors in the following job titles and those performing the same or similar work: AP/Research, Associate Producer, AP Specialist, Archival Producer, Art Director, Junior Archival, Post AP, Post Coordinator, Post Production Assistant, Production Assistant, Producer, Show Runner, Sr. Producer/Writer, Supervising Producer, GFX Designer, GFX Tech, GFX Artist, Motion GFX Editor, Jr. Graphic Freelance Designer, Motion Graphics, Story Producer.”
This is going to impact documentaries and reality-based.