#fair contract

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

early heads up

[bkenber]

The Scene at the SAG/AFTRA and WGA Picket Line Outside of Netflix

After joining the union members of SAG/AFTRA and WGA, still on strike for a fair contract from producers, in front of Paramount Studios, I joined them again outside of Netflix, Sunset Bronson Studios and KTLA Channel 5 studios on July 27, 2023. It was a scorcher of a day as the temperature got up to ninety degrees, but the union members remained determined to march on, and the strike captains did…

[saveanimationfromai]

Some news on the latest Marches

In the past several weeks, The Animation Guild has marched on two major companies as negotiations between TAG and AMPTP remained stagnant.

The first march happened on October 24th, where many members of the union, fans, family, and friends signed a petition and marched on Netflix Headquarters in Los Gatos, California. Here, they stood demanding for a fair contract for animation workers. Among those individuals who participated in the march was Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. He posted on his Instagram story of him being there and saying “If the AMPTP won’t BUDGE, they’re NOT GETTING our LABOR”. Major speaker of The Animation Guild Mike Rianda also spoke out to the group on his support for the guild and the constant fight for animators to get a fair contract without AI getting into the business.

The second march occurred this past Tuesday, November 12th. This time there were animators marching on the Dreamworks Studio in Glendale, California. At this rally, no one notable of the animation industry was there, but TAG member Michelle Drennan spoke to hundreds of Animation Guild members outside Dreamworks before the Guild delivered a petition to Dreamworks executives. The Dreamworks march occurred in the same way the Netflix march happened, again reminding corporate bosses of these companies that animation workers deserve a fair contract with fair wages and protections against AI. It is also noted that an ABC7 News truck was there and reported on this march to the news.

[shitpostingkats]

We need to talk Cloud Strife, esteemed Autism Haver, probably coming out of the goo with at least 30% of Zack's adhd diagnosis.

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

This is so shit and our legend marta's name is being used to shield the useless man. 🤮🤮🤮

exactly. the financial situation has not changed. they could have reported on this anytime in the last few weeks 🙄

yes, barça femení is not a separate organisation nor does it have a separate financial structure from fc barcelona as a whole (unlike let's say lyon or london city lionesses or any nwsl club). therefore, the entire club needs to meet la liga's financial fair play rules. each league has its own rules, so la liga is different from that of the premier league.

sure, mapi could leave one day, and salma leaving is a big WTF, but yes, i think this is all PR spin up.

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

As the pic was discussed in the latest podcast, here's the Vanity Fair interview.

[cementcornfield]

Offseason Thoughts!!

ok i know a lot of people are dreading this offseason because it’s going to be Long it’s going to be Dramatic, but honestly i’m so here for it. like lowkey i love this time of year because really it’s the time for completely unbridled optimism in a lot of ways. if we do A, B, and C, who’s to say that that doesn’t fix the team and we win the super bowl next year? you literally can’t know for sure that it WON’T work!! (i didn’t say it was a time for realism, i said optimism, perhaps delusionally so 🥲) 

plus i’m just genuinely interested in all the roster building stuff. figuring out contracts and how those might work, free agency, the draft and everything that those things entail - love it! all about it! so if you’re a sicko like me who IS into all of this (and i completely understand if you aren’t because it WILL be exhausting) i thought i’d make a little overview about the things we’ll be dealing with over the next several months. 

Here is a list of all the internal free agents we are going to have to make decisions on, along with their expected cost and the likelihood of us keeping them

^Here is our expected cap space for the next few years (taking into account expected cuts like Rankins, Hubbard, and Cappa) plus some extra commentary.

as you can see, we have MORE than enough cash and cap space to be very aggressive this offseason. will we be? it’s certainly not in our reputation to do so, but they HAVE been making baby steps over the last few years to catch up to the modern nfl. the most recent example of which is firing coaches like lou before their contracts are up! very uncharacteristic of the brown family. and i think this reflects rumblings you hear on twitter that the organization is frankly embarrassed at how this season went (rightfully so). so i think you can expect they will do SOME things to reflect this urgency, even if it’s not as much as we’d like them to do. 

the biggest decisions to be made: what do we do about tee?? what do we do about trey?? and then of course extending ja’marr, which i don’t think is a decision at all for anyone, but they’ve gotta decide how to do it to make both sides as happy as possible, when they struggled with that right up to the first game last season 😭

Tee: obviously if you’ve been following this blog you know i want to keep tee. i think we can pull it off and i think it will be beneficial to the team long term. but there is an argument to be made regarding his durability/injuries and whether the resources we’d spend on him would be better spent elsewhere like on fixing our historically bad defense. however, to that i say that we’re actually already one of the biggest spenders in terms of cap space on defense, and it didn’t help at all lmao. once we get rid of people like sheldon rankins and sam hubbard, who are definitely no longer worth the value of their contracts, we will free up a significant portion of the cap and use it to find better value free agents that can help us. the strategy going from overpaying for bad players to paying average amounts for average players. because with a top 5 offense like we had this year, we truly only need an average defense, unlike the HISTORICALLY bad one we had this year!

(now a caveat to this is if the bengals would actually show they’re willing to go all out and spend BIG on the BEST defensive free agents, then perhaps that’s worth more than keeping tee. but the only thing with that is that i just don’t believe the bengals would do it either way. even in 21 when we fixed our whole defense with free agency, we still did it by acquiring a bunch of smaller name value free agents, who ended up performing far above what the market thought they would. and i imagine that will be the strategy by the FO whether we keep tee or not.) 

you can also say that a large part of our FO’s failure the last few seasons has been that we aren’t keeping our Known Talents. we drafted and developed jessie bates into a star, and then we let him go because we thought we could easily replace his value for cheaper in FA and the draft….and three years later safety is still a huge hole on our roster. DJ Reader is another example of a key player for our team that we thought we could replace and we failed dramatically. looking at tee, who is the replacement we have in line? jermaine?? for SO MANY reasons that is no longer a viable plan lmao. Someone in FA? this is a weak FA class. so we’d let tee walk and then probably end up overpaying for a lesser talent? what’s the point of that? okay maybe we draft a WR high to replace tee? well i’m hearing that it’s also not a great WR draft. and to expect a first year rookie to come in and offer even half of what tee does is also not a super sound strategy! (not to mention we’d have to spend a high draft pick that should probably be used on defense!) 

tag tee? maybe! but i don’t think it’s as likely as extending him at this point. the second tag will be expensive (i think over 25k? maybe 26k) and that takes up a big chunk of our cap space if that’s what we’re worried about. plus it will piss off tee, to be tagged twice and not given the benefit of being able to get a long term deal? with his injury history especially? players hate that shit. i think it’s more beneficial for both parties to just do an extension at that point if we want to keep him. you can spread the cap hit out easier for the team, and tee won’t have to worry about his long term security as much. 

ANYWAY this got long, honestly tee should have just been his own post lmao. but this situation is deifnitely the most interesting to me and seeing how it goes will be FASCINATING. 

Trey: he requested a trade last offseason because he knows that his current contract is significantly less than he deserves for the value he offers (and that was BEFORE he got first team all pro and led the entire nfl in sacks this season, oh god 🥲) we have him under contract, but would he be willing to play under it? or would he retire like he threatened to? i’m honestly not sure, and i hope it doesn’t come to us finding out. we need to keep our star players happy, which means we need to figure something out here. do we extend him? he just turned 30, which the FO always frowns upon when it comes to extensions lol BUT he also just had his best year? i don’t think even our idiotic FO could say that just because his age starts with a 3 now means he’ll be washed next season or even the season after. what i’m seeing on twitter is that he’s expected to get at least one more deal of 2-3 years. and looking at the age of elite edge guys in the league, i think that that’s fair! and if you ask me, completely and totally worth it to keep trey. i mean jesus, who do we even have on defense if we lose him?? i think this one is a no-brainer, we’ve gotta offer him an extension for more money and i think he’d still be willing to take a reasonable deal to stay. 

Ja’Marr: oh my god. i’m still filled with SO MUCH RAGE when i think back to how CLOSE we were to getting him signed last offseason. we were RIGHT THERE. all the rumors were saying it was basically a done deal!! all the numbers and years were agreed upon!!! but our cheap-ass FO couldn’t just get over themselves and structure the guarantees to match how most deals are done in the rest of the league!! they showed they’re willing to do a modern structure for Joe, they need to show they’re willing to do it with the rest of our stars. especially our first team all pro triple crown winning stars!! jesus christ!!!

the only thing that offers me some comfort is that ja’marr is still on the same path, contract-wise, as Justin Jefferson. they also couldn’t get over the hump before his fourth year even when both parties wanted to, and he ended up signing a massive contract in june the next year. i’m hoping that we can accomplish the same on a similar timeline because oh my god i do not need all the drama of ja’marr missing training camp again! and when you look at all the other WRs up for an extension this offseason (garrett wilson probably the only one who even comes slightly close to ja’marr’s level), i think it’s fair to say that ja’marr is setting the market whenever he signs. then like with justin’s last year, the other WRs will all sign slightly below. so i’m hoping hoping hoping that there’s no motivation on either side to drag this out. but of course, we’ll see!! 

and then we’ve gotta think about the lesser free agents like Mike G, Mike H, BJ, Germaine…i have no idea what we do with them. i’d like to retain Mike G…..the three defensive vets i dunno! they’re good locker room leaders…mostly? they’re still solid if not losing a step. should we bring them back for reasonable vet deals? probably?? can we find better value in FA?? i’m honestly not sure. like you don’t want to lose these guys but it’s also hard to say that we should keep them at all costs when you look at the defensive performance last year. i just don’t know here. i’d hope we keep at least one of them? BJ maybe being the most important in my eyes? 

there’s so much more to talk about honestly but i’ll stop yapping for now! what do you guys think we should do?? i’d love to hear your thoughts! 

[missingcellulose]

Scar: "Then the salmonellas all came around and was like, 'Don't eat raw cookie dough.'-"

SCAR IM PRETTY SURE THE SALMONELLA WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME

[sarsaparilla-star]

playing fallout 3 for the first time means oscillating between "this is a really fun game and is reminding me why i love fallout" and "this is the worst thing anybody has ever written"

[scalpel-mom-mori]

people comparing the kayano ai thing to morikobu shoutarou getting replaced and no this and that are different. Kayano ai tweeted about a temple dedicated to the soldiers that occupied china, morikobu shoutarou spoke out against the treatment of the uyghur people by the Chinese government. those are two entirely different things.

[seariii]

I know my project is correct but it still makes me anxious cause it's like

Other's / mine

[topazshadowwolf]

random question but does the Nootmare pay taxes?

Sale taxes, yes. But he is not reporting his income and his property is hidden from the Multiverse IRS. So, for the most part, no, he does not pay taxes, he opposes taxes, and will gladly toss tea in any bay to prove his antitaxes point. In the end, he will eventually be brought down by the Multiverse IRS for tax dodging.

Sorry for the spoiler for the end of HNBD, which does not actually stand for How Nightmare Became Dadmare but How Nightmare Began Dodging (taxes).

[starrynightteam]

The protector alter: I will always be there for all of you

That same protector alter when the body is on period:

[freedominthedarkmp3]

I'm not being paid to do fuckall on the clock but tbf I am being given some real easy stuff to do that generally takes me half of the workday so the rest of the time I'm doing fuckall #girlboss

[moments-on-film]

Great news! The WGA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement for a 3 year contract! More details about the agreement to come from the Guild, as it has yet to be signed and has additional rounds of approval before it is final and the strike order is lifted, but this is huge!

Major respect and congratulations to the WGA leadership, WGA negotiation committee, strike captains, and members of the WGA for standing firm in their strike and fighting for a fair contract. Major respect and congratulations to everyone impacted by this strike, including sister unions and to the allies and those who stood in solidarity!

The end of this month was the deadline in terms of setting up writer’s rooms to create seasons of TV for 2024, so this tentative agreement potentially came just in the nick of time.

Hopefully a fair contract for SAG-AFTRA is to follow.

Among many, many other things, this means that if The Bear season 3 is in fact renewed and a new series is ordered, if all goes well it could be back on air by next summer.

Photo source: WGA West

[ardenrosegarden]

man, come on.