RateTrend · Technology · Labor
A new medium arrives.
The contracts catch up — after a fight.
Eighty-five years of one recurring pattern, read straight from agreements parsed end-to-end. The green dots are the first year each concept actually appears in the contract text.
Technology → contract, and the strikes that bridged the gap
Each row: a hollow ring when the medium reached the industry, a glowing dot when the agreements first name it, and the lag between. Strikes glow below — watch how one so often lands right in a gap (home video → 1980; new media → 2007; streaming + AI → 2023).
Medium arrives (industry)
First named in a contract
Strike
Economic shock
▸ N = lag in years
Keyword rivers
How often each concept appears across the contracts over time (mentions per 100k words). Watch residuals, home video, new media and streaming swell as each fight is won — while pension, meal period and turnaround run steady from the 1940s.
On the roadmap
- Benefit-expansion timeline — pension / health / vacation / meal / OT / residuals as they entered and grew.
- Wage vs. inflation — negotiated minimums against CPI, box office, TV-ad and streaming benchmarks.
- Clause-drift map — the same article across decades, where the language moved most.