This is a headgun podcast.

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Kahnover, thank you so much for joining

me on this show, I'm here in my brand new studio to share a little bit of a different

episode with you.

See, normally I have an expert on this show to teach us all things that blow our minds,

but this week I'm talking about something very personal.

See, you might have read in the news that my union, the writer's Guild of America, is

on strike.

That's because over the last decade, writing for television, movies, and streaming has

become increasingly unsustainable as a career.

The median writer-producer in TV now makes 23% less than we did a decade ago, even though

the companies are making more money than ever, and show budgets have increased by 50% over

that same period.

In fact, even though companies like Netflix are making record profits, they are simultaneously

waging an unprecedented war on our compensation and on our workplace protections.

They're trying to eliminate the writer's room and turn us into freelancers.

They're trying to force screenwriters to do endless rewrites for free, and they're trying

to turn late-night comedy writing from a stable career into a one-day week side hustle.

Now, they're a tough adversary.

We've got some of the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the world fighting against

us trying to eliminate our jobs, but you know what, we have to fight back a union.

Together, the 12,000 writers of the writer's Guild of America have declared that enough

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