AFTRA members have lost prime-time 10pm highest rated show because of Jay Leno being moved from 11.30 pm in direct competition with nightly news local channels. Loss to uniion members will be jobs and talent will go elsewhere. New York will recover in theatre productions where TV has moved to sunny california.
The little guys with the small production companies will be in the worst financial shape when the time comes to renegotiate the contract at the writer's guild and the director's guild meeting in December 2009.
High paid talent can travel and move coast to coast but union labor has family to feed and kids in school and cannot just pack up and leave to a whole new enviroment. this is a loss for all the hard working theatrical and stage employees in the closed shop union local #342.
The shop foreman has filed grievances at the production company union local meeting and the NLRB will take on the case for the labor - management settlement conference. Internet shows on HULU will be the topic for the next years contract negotiations . Web designers for pre-production creative pool is sending the work to China and India to bypass the prevailing wage laws in effect for the 2009-2010 season.