All studios must offer at least guild minimum rates. The issue is of consolidation.

And one of the goals of consolidation, is having power leverage to lower the guild minimum rate.

Another goal is to have the leverage to force writers to live in studio owned apartments and only buy from studio own stores, only traveling or taking time off with studio approval. While speaking, writing, and acting only in a manner approved by the studio.

The real goal is slavery (of the rest of us) to the billionaires.