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i'm guessing they would have had to give up other gains they secured to get a better % here (which admittedly isn't great)
but better to have the ability to fight over raising it later than just conceding it forever, especially if it meant having to give up other things the guild saw as existential like min. room staffings and guaranteed second steps for feature writers. no deal is ever perfect but compared to the money they absolutely left on the table in 2007/2008, this felt like a reset of a lot of things that had gone out of balance since the last strike
also, who knows what the **** "streaming" will even be or look like in three years so . . . hard to even predict what the next fight will really be over by then
Bloomberg (Lucas Shaw): Less than 5% of Netflix 2022 releases would earn the WGA negotiated performance bonus. Nov 06, 11:07
it was always gonna be a starting point for future contracts as the guild gathers more data Nov 06, 11:12
My worry with that thinking is assuming the guilds will be able to hold the line better than they did with the last strike Nov 06, 13:24
i'm guessing they would have had to give up other gains they secured to get a better % here (which admittedly isn't great) Nov 06, 13:50