“Ahead of contract negotiations, DGA leadership put particular emphasis on global streaming residuals (the royalty payments a director receives when a film or television episode they worked on is streamed online around the world). Writing in Variety, DGA president and former Mad Men director Lesli Linka Glatter argued that as “streaming platforms have gained millions of subscribers around the world, [studios] haven’t allowed directors and our teams to share fairly in the international growth of these platforms or the global distribution of our work.””
It’s also interesting that they’ll go for a ‘most favoured nation’ status, so that if any of the unions get a better deal, then theirs will be upped to that level.
But having only participated in strike action for about 3 hours in 1987, how likely is it that they will strike?
https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/directors-strike-2023-d...
I think it really is up in the air! This one is hard to judge especially based on history. They obviously usually stay out of strikes and other unions business, but this is a pretty unprecedented time with circumstances coming together for many unions like it hasn't before. My wish is that they strike to lean their weight instead of just "favored nations".