Michael Tabb, who was unhoused for four years, returned to Disney for his second writersstrike as a member of the Writers Guild
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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.
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