NEWS: Why The Writers Are On Strike

Now I know why 90% of what Hollywood has been producing over the past decade or two is such utter crap. Good luck with the revolution.

*looks up 'Teamsters'*

Ah, a worker's union. Cool. Good on them for their support.

Good luck on the picket line. It'll be a nasty fight, but I hope it's a short one.

-TTm

WHATs the pay $$ and benefits package for the avergae grunt writer?

What would I do without my sweet Armando?



Good luck to us all.

As disappointing as that is, I still say good luck with the strike. Maybe if "Lost", "Heroes", etc. go belly up, producers will actually pay attention.

I fully support this move by the writers, and while I a myself am not a union member my father was a Teamster in good standing for many years. I will honor all picket lines. Good luck to you all.

Good to read a sincere article with minimal fancypants snarkiness... Adding my 8 cents to your pile of "good luck"s.

Good luck FTR, i love a lot of the shows in jeopardy, but fuck it if i am gonna whine or support those greedy asshat studios.

Stick it to 'em and hopefully the public backlash will hit them harder than it hits you guys.

God help us all if this kills Lost.

Fuck yes.

Fantastic article. Best of luck to you.

Great article, and I hope you guys get what you need in your next contract.

Fuck yeah! Screw those media bigwigs, and their hypocrisy!

Holy shit! Lost is still alive?

I propose a strike against that!

How about when all this strike business is over, let's just leave "The Big Bang Theory" off the air? No, in all seriousness one would have to feel pretty jilted to go about something as risky as a strike. Best of luck to you.

I've been looking into this story and only know have seen this side of the argument clearly explained. Thanks for a great article FTR. Best of luck to you and all your fellow writers.

STRIKE!


ive been reading about this for three weeks on mark evaniers blog, newsfromme.com and you said it as well as he does. good luck ftr! we the internet want to pay you!

This kinda, sorta, not exactly, but still reminds me of another situation.

Hmmn. I think it's about time some other content providers formed a union and started getting better terms on their contracts. Don't you?

I hope this ends up getting a better contract for writers and strengthening their union. Unions as a whole have taken a beating in this country, not the least reason being globalization. Manufacturing unions, which used to be a labor powerhouse, have been significantly reduced in effectiveness because of the (very real) threat that if they don't cave to management demands, the plants will move somewhere overseas and all the jobs will be lost.

Here's hoping the same thing doesn't happen to the writers. Good luck.

As much as I hope that everyone involved gets a fair deal, I can't believe that there are not thousands upon thousands of Americans who would jump at the chance to be a scab writer for half of what writers are paid right now. I further suspect thatfor all but the absolute best television programs, their work would not be appreciably worse than current professionals.

Is this why I saw hundreds of producer-types queued up at LAX for a charter flight to Bollywood last week? Oh boy.

It would be nice to see the actors, who would not have a living if not for the writers, support you but I sincerely doubt they have that much class

It's really nice to see this kind of support from the members towards Union workers. I didn't get nearly as much backing when I spoke on behalf of the MTA workers on strike in NYC. I work as a conductor in freight service and understood completely the real reason behind the strike, which again was portrayed by the media exactly the way they are trying to play the Writer's Guild now. It's sickening to think we have to fight and beg for scraps just to get by in this day and age, and that non union workers, making even less and with less benefits often times speak out against the unions at times like this. What i think they fail to realize is that the things we ultimately end up fighting for and winning sets a standard for non union workers to strive for. Benefits and pay increases that we get raise the bar for all laborers.

Good luck on this, irregardless of the fact im in a union, hope yah guys wind up with a bit more of the pie, and can get back to making things fer me to spend time watchin