Unhoused for Four Years: Why One Writer Returned to the Picket Line
Before the WGA strike, Tabb had been working on a TV show with an independent production company and writing his passion project, which he describes as being about how people treat others and how the hippies of the 1970s affect the modern era.
On Tuesday, Tabb was carrying a sign that read, “Writers were paid better in the days of VHS,” which referenced the 1988 WGA strike that lasted for more than 150 days. “Back in the days of VHS, we actually made a better percentage of residuals and of payment than we did on DVD,” he said. “In 1988, they took it way down when we tried to strike for equal pay. Then we finally got [to] streaming in 2007, which is the last strike, but we didn’t quite get up to fair wages yet.
One of the central issues the WGA is proposing would increase the number of writers working on each show and keep them employed for longer spans, while also ending the wave of so-called “mini-rooms” in which studios/streamers hire a small number of scribes for a short period of time without any guarantee of future work.that he had “some early success” and “thought everything was going to be great.” After consulting with his accountant, Tabb bought a home for his wife and three children.
Tabb said he spent time teaching in order to make ends meet and bumped into one of his former students — a fellow WGA member — on the picket line Tuesday where his comments about previous strikes elicited support from his fellow creatives. “The majority of screenwriters are independent contractors, which means we’re hired to do a job. It can last two months; it can last two weeks. It can last six months if we’re lucky on a TV show, but that’s it. And then we’ve got to find another job,” he said.
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