Posted on 11/13/2007 9:40:41 PM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
Defections by multiple writers on CBS soap The Young and the Restless drew a stern response from Writers Guild of America leadership Tuesday.
“They are only prolonging the strike,” WGA East spokeswoman Sherry Goldman said. “They will never be full members of the Writers Guild again.”
According to a report Tuesday in Variety, a senior writer on a Y&R informed WGA leadership of plans to cross the picket line and return to work, andothers on the soap, as well as a writer on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, are considering the same action.
The writers will be covered under the “salary statute” of their contract and they cannot lose their jobs, but they will forgo all other Guild benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at broadcastingcable.com ...
I have relatively little knowledge of the specific details concerning this strike, but it would seem like an extraordinary opportunity for a great many aspiring (script)writers.
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I’m a non-WGA member writer (I live in Texas and write comedy for radio), but I have friends in it. It’s a good time to meet writers in the WGA, if you want to hang around the picket line, but it would be a very bad idea to do scab work if you want a career. They’ve made it clear that once the strike ends, anyone who did scab work will be blackballed for life. You’d have to gamble that the producers will end up breaking the union so badly that once the strike is over, you’ll no longer have to be a WGA member to work in Hollywood, and I wouldn’t bet my entire future on that.
Good point(s). How about working under a pen name? Just curious.
The senior writer of Y&R who will be returning to work is probably the husband of the Exec. Producer, Lynn Latham, who is striking. I know her husband works there and with him still writing, the show will go on as normal. I’m sure Lynn will remain hands on from home.
From what I understand, they’ll be black balled FOREVER.
Thus is the fate of those who oppose Liberal organizations...
This is pure McCarthyism as defined by liberals. Black Listing by any other name is still Black Listing.
“You’ll never work in this town again!” Bump.
If I may present a different perspective here—we all know the story of The Little Red Hen. What the WGA is involved in is a contract negotiation, not a political demonstration: many of us on the line are just as conservative as I am. It’s just the free market at work—we are trying to set a higher price for our goods—and we will either win or not. If we do win, why should people who didn’t want to cut the wheat and bake the bread get to eat it when it’s done? I’m out there on the picket lines four hours a day, sacrificing a great deal, not only for my own future but for the future of generations of writers, just as my father, also a writer, struck in the past for the health and pension benefits that have made a huge difference in my life and the lives of my children. Writers who work while we are sacrificing should not have the right to reap the benefits we gain from that sacrifice. I am confident that many of you would feel the same way about gains and losses in your own lines of work.
P.S.: if you read the whole article you will see that in fact none of the Y&R writers actually did go on strike. This does not surprise me because I know two of the writers on that show and they are very savvy and sensible and would not undermine a business negotiation in that way.
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