Jeff Heusser:

But there were several examples given of conditions – like staffing up for a show and then being surprised by the studio with a three month delay on turnover of plates. Parentau: “there are so many situations like that because we have no strength as a unit to be able to say to the studios… some sort of language that says if you delay your plate delivery, you have to pay us x amount of dollars every week…”.

This is a real problem. I have no idea what the problems are but I know it makes my boss crazy. He works really hard to have work to pay me to do. If he doesn't have art for me to do he can't pay me. Period.

Having artists sitting around burning bandwidth is expensive. Companies can't do expensive while not taking in cash. None can.