The present strikes by each the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are monumental and monumentally historic.
This has not occurred since Ronald Reagan was SAG president. (Sure, actually)
However there’s one other group within the leisure trade who’re topic to mistreatment and exploitation, all to complement TV and streaming behemoths.
RHONY alum Bethenny Frankel has been sounding the alarm. And this week, forward of (rumored) resumed negotiations, SAG-AFTRA famous that they’re along with her all the best way.
On Thursday, August 10, Deadline reported that SAG-AFTRA is working “towards the safety of the fact performers” on actuality TV.
This large guild which works to make sure employees’ rights already covers the hosts on most of actuality TV.
SAG-AFTRA acknowledged that they’re making an effort to finish “the exploitative practices which have developed on this space.”
Moreover, the colossal guild hopes “to interact in a brand new path to union protection.”
Actuality TV boomed after the final large strike in 2008.
And this strike, of each writers and actors, is the biggest in generations. It may enact crucial, historic modifications in an trade that at the moment robs the precise employees to line the pockets of company executives and shareholders.
Sufficient is sufficient
Actuality TV has been a loophole that sure unscrupulous leisure giants have hoped to take advantage of. (Similar to streaming)
“We’re bored with studios and manufacturing firms attempting to avoid the union,” SAG-AFTRA famous, “with the intention to exploit the expertise that they depend on to make their product.” Aren’t all of us.
Thursday’s assertion from SAG-AFTRA shared that it now “has engaged in discussions with Bryan Freedman on the Freedman + Taitelman, LLP regulation agency who has been retained by Bethenny Frankel.”
These have been discussions “across the topic of therapy of actuality performers.”
The large guilt famous that “SAG-AFTRA is the union that represents actuality performers.” So far, there are limits to what which means.
“Relying on the construction of the manufacturing and the performers concerned,” SAG-AFTRA continued, “we will cowl these performers underneath our Community Code Settlement.”
It’s a team-up
“We stand prepared to help Bethenny Frankel, Bryan Freedman, and Mark Geragos together with actuality performers and our members,” SAG-AFTRA affirmed.
They stand collectively “within the struggle and are bored with studios and manufacturing firms attempting to avoid the Union with the intention to exploit the expertise that they depend on to make their product.”
SAG-AFTRA added: “We encourage any actuality performers and/or members to succeed in out to SAG-AFTRA’s Leisure Contracts Division.”
That is “in order that we may match collectively towards the safety of the fact performers.”
The intention is “ending the exploitative practices which have developed on this space.”
“And,” SAG-AFTRA continued, “to interact in a brand new path to union protection.”
What does this should do with Bethenny?
The explanation that SAG-AFTRA is name-dropping Bethenny Frankel is as a result of her current TikTok video laid out a lot of methods wherein networks exploit actuality TV performers.
She centered upon how her first season netted her just a few thousand {dollars}, regardless that individuals nonetheless watch these episodes.
Which after all implies that Bravo and NBCUniversal seemingly nonetheless revenue from these episodes, even now. Is that how issues ought to work?
Along with a lawsuit over alleged mistreatment at Bravo, there are merely a whole lot of stable factors about actuality TV performers.
From unpaid foremost forged members (like on 90 Day Fiance) to minors who movie towards their will (Little Folks, Massive World) to whole households robbed by the one gathering the paycheck (Counting On), this trade is rife with injustice.
Some actuality stars get wealthy off of their stardom. Many — most — would possibly accumulate a number of thousand {dollars} after months of humiliation. Their work creates a fortune. They only aren’t those who obtain it.
The present strikes by each the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are monumental and monumentally historic.
This has not occurred since Ronald Reagan was SAG president. (Sure, actually)
However there’s one other group within the leisure trade who’re topic to mistreatment and exploitation, all to complement TV and streaming behemoths.
RHONY alum Bethenny Frankel has been sounding the alarm. And this week, forward of (rumored) resumed negotiations, SAG-AFTRA famous that they’re along with her all the best way.
On Thursday, August 10, Deadline reported that SAG-AFTRA is working “towards the safety of the fact performers” on actuality TV.
This large guild which works to make sure employees’ rights already covers the hosts on most of actuality TV.
SAG-AFTRA acknowledged that they’re making an effort to finish “the exploitative practices which have developed on this space.”
Moreover, the colossal guild hopes “to interact in a brand new path to union protection.”
Actuality TV boomed after the final large strike in 2008.
And this strike, of each writers and actors, is the biggest in generations. It may enact crucial, historic modifications in an trade that at the moment robs the precise employees to line the pockets of company executives and shareholders.
Sufficient is sufficient
Actuality TV has been a loophole that sure unscrupulous leisure giants have hoped to take advantage of. (Similar to streaming)
“We’re bored with studios and manufacturing firms attempting to avoid the union,” SAG-AFTRA famous, “with the intention to exploit the expertise that they depend on to make their product.” Aren’t all of us.
Thursday’s assertion from SAG-AFTRA shared that it now “has engaged in discussions with Bryan Freedman on the Freedman + Taitelman, LLP regulation agency who has been retained by Bethenny Frankel.”
These have been discussions “across the topic of therapy of actuality performers.”
The large guilt famous that “SAG-AFTRA is the union that represents actuality performers.” So far, there are limits to what which means.
“Relying on the construction of the manufacturing and the performers concerned,” SAG-AFTRA continued, “we will cowl these performers underneath our Community Code Settlement.”
It’s a team-up
“We stand prepared to help Bethenny Frankel, Bryan Freedman, and Mark Geragos together with actuality performers and our members,” SAG-AFTRA affirmed.
They stand collectively “within the struggle and are bored with studios and manufacturing firms attempting to avoid the Union with the intention to exploit the expertise that they depend on to make their product.”
SAG-AFTRA added: “We encourage any actuality performers and/or members to succeed in out to SAG-AFTRA’s Leisure Contracts Division.”
That is “in order that we may match collectively towards the safety of the fact performers.”
The intention is “ending the exploitative practices which have developed on this space.”
“And,” SAG-AFTRA continued, “to interact in a brand new path to union protection.”
What does this should do with Bethenny?
The explanation that SAG-AFTRA is name-dropping Bethenny Frankel is as a result of her current TikTok video laid out a lot of methods wherein networks exploit actuality TV performers.
She centered upon how her first season netted her just a few thousand {dollars}, regardless that individuals nonetheless watch these episodes.
Which after all implies that Bravo and NBCUniversal seemingly nonetheless revenue from these episodes, even now. Is that how issues ought to work?
Along with a lawsuit over alleged mistreatment at Bravo, there are merely a whole lot of stable factors about actuality TV performers.
From unpaid foremost forged members (like on 90 Day Fiance) to minors who movie towards their will (Little Folks, Massive World) to whole households robbed by the one gathering the paycheck (Counting On), this trade is rife with injustice.
Some actuality stars get wealthy off of their stardom. Many — most — would possibly accumulate a number of thousand {dollars} after months of humiliation. Their work creates a fortune. They only aren’t those who obtain it.