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According to the WGA negotiating committee, the studios are pushing for a "day rate" for comedy/variety writers. Truly horrifying. We won't survive something like that. #WGAStrong #WGAStrike #WGAStressed
why is a day rate is a problem? it’s a rollback from our current contract, which protects us with weekly minimum rates. And for many comedy/variety shows, we require a 13 week contract. Day rates would allow studios to hire fewer writers and overwork the writers they do hire.
Comedy/variety writers are the lowest paid in the guild and many of us are already struggling to make ends meet in the era of shorter seasons, smaller staff sizes and network churn. We don’t even have minimums for streaming. Residuals are basically non existent.
