In Brief: Is this a “Hot Labor Summer”? (with Lauren Kaori Gurley)
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The Writer Strike and the Actor Strike
The writer strike and the actor strike really are coalescing around two main issues that are also reflected as sort of in the broader labor movement. The first one is pay. For many years, writers and actors depended on these things called residual checks for like steady income when maybe they're not working on a big show. In the streaming era, the unions, the union members, these actors have said that their paychecks have gotten a lot smaller.
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