Thread regarding DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. layoffs

Anonymous, your logic is quite flawed. First of all, the idea that if the movies do well that all magically trickles down to the artists is naive and idealistic. Sure, if DWA films have a great year as they did in the Shrek Blockbuster years there are bonuses and everyone is happy. That has NOTHING to do with jobs being outsourced to India. Avatar made 2 BILLION dollars at the box office. Do you think the artists at Weta all got giant checks and employment there skyrocketed?? No. They continue to hire and fire the same way they have in the past and will continue to do. When Avengers made a BILLION dollars do you think ILM is set for life and every artist there has job security?? Again. NO. Those jobs are being farmed out to India and China as fast as possible and the number of staff kept fulltime dwindles by the day. Box office performance has NOTHING to do with how quickly US jobs are farmed out to India or China. They're farmed out there for 2 reasons; labor is exponentially cheaper and the labor can be easily exploited into working long hours for free. Something our Union at DWA may not be 100% effective at preventing, but at least it's not rampant. It's the same reason that Lucas killed IATSE back in the day. He had the leverage and they didn't. So now their jobs are going to India/China and they have no healthcare as project to project employees. So PLEASE don't say that India isn't taking away jobs. OF COURSE they are. Pull your head out of the sand my friend.