With both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA on strike, the studios will soon try to turn us against each other — claiming that they can’t *possibly* pay their writers because the actors are asking for too much and vice versa.

Bullshit. Here’s why:🧵

Let’s look at the total value of both guilds’ 2020 contracts. At first, it looks like SAG is taking too much — until you consider SAG has 14.5 times more members. Then it looks like writers are taking too much. But neither is true.

Because that’s not the whole pie.

The studios will happily remind you that almost every dollar one of us wins is actually at least 6 dollars they have to pay to the other unions and guilds.

This isn’t entirely true because they do everything they can to grind us all, but let’s run with it for now.

The chart below compares WGA and SAG 2020 contracts against estimates for Teamsters, IATSE, and DGA. And again, it looks like the studios have a point. Every dollar one of us wins is a dollar the others can’t have. But again…

That’s not the whole pie.

*This* is the whole pie: the actual and estimated totals of each major union and guild contract measured against studio revenues over the three-year term of the last WGA deal. The “slices” they want us to fight over are so small, I couldn’t even get them to show up in Excel.