From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

For the first time in decades, the crew members who make movies and TV shows are threatening to strike.

Members of Ayatzi, the union that covers cinematographers, editors, costumers, and many more behind-the-camera jobs,

say they've had enough of low wages and long hours without sufficient

breaks. I have actually been required to leave a funeral so that I could get on my computer

and start addressing a draft that needed to be published that day that I'd not been given

any advanced warning on. And feeling like your entire life is under the thumb of

production and the needs of a show is very tiring and harmful. Script coordinator and the Yazi

member, Sean Waugh, tells us why he will vote to authorize a historic strike if the parties can't

come to terms.

And lest you think the calls for change are new, we'll revisit part of a conversation from a few

years ago with Oscar-winning cinematographer and activist Haskell Wexler.

He fought for more reasonable work hours up until his death at age 93 in 2015.

But first, we banter.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my buddy and banter Matt.

Melanie. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Netflix, you know, as time goes on, I feel that Netflix morphs and mutates into something

closer and closer to, you know, a Hollywood studio.

They still don't want to release movies and theaters with some rare exceptions on a very limited

basis, but they just coughed up about $68 million for the role doll characters.

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