Comments on: WGA to membership: No deal yet

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By: David

David — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:07:05 +0000

I went out to eat last night with a group of writers, three of which, by the way are very, very, high profile and currently working writers that support the strike whole heartedly. One of them is very involed with the negotiations and he said the strike will be over Monday.

By: J Dee

J Dee — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:14:39 +0000

Betsa has a strong point. My husband and I are both laid off due to the strike. This has affected thousands of families with children and is having a negative impact on Calif’s economy as well. There was a day when having a good job with good pay and benefits was appreciated.
This strike isn’t a simple case of one side being right or wrong. As far as producers go, it is their money that funds the productions to begin with. If you have a couple of million to put up, then you too can become a producer. God Forbid the production sucks and you start looking for pennies in any place possible to recoop your investment or minimize your losses. While the writers have a right to a fair share of residuals why are they unable to negotiate a deal when the DGA had no problem? This begs the question: Does Organized Labor really benefit their members? Perhaps the hey day of the union worker is dead.

By: shaujitsu

shaujitsu — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:02:52 +0000

Shark u appear to be more than a 13$ an hour fish

By: shaujitsu

shaujitsu — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:43:58 +0000

The Writers are creative,which equals $ for the 200,000 others. Once the Bizness people control the creative people your paychecks will shrink. The Bean counters are better at this than us. If you work in the Biz you know they staggered our contracts, divide and conquer. Everybody is mad at the writers, they didn’t support us. Nobody supports anybody, the Unions have no power. Lets break the cycle. Annnnnd. we can’t blame em for the home equity mess we created.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:32:41 +0000

Funny how certian words can really stick in your craw. David says 45000 a year is not bad, but not rich. Is the strike about getting rich, or fair wages for work? I hope that my recent $$ hardships were not forced upon me by a group that was making a living thats ” not bad “. I still stand by the notion that you cant divide the price tag of a script by the time it took to write. Maybe she could give herself a raise by learning to type faster. Did you deduct time for holidays, vacations, etc. Not every writer works at the same pace, some sell multiple scripts a year, some not for a decade. Should these sell for different prices? There’s not a single writer i know, including davids wife it seems, who was WORKING who wanted this strike. They all might loose their jobs. An unemloyeed WGA member who’s working on some project has nothing to loose however. I would love to hear from a working WGA member who supports this strike and why. Untill then i’m still waiting to be convinced

By: Sick of TV

Sick of TV — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:04:58 +0000

Unions exist for a reason. Take a look at the history of unoins and you see a pretty unfortunate cycle. They always start for a sincerely justified reason and eventually wind up being used extravegently. I would not; however, consider the writers strike to be at the ugly end of unions just yet. If your employer decided to simply not pay you for work you had done, you would either quit or file for legal action. Those are the options.

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:41:23 +0000

That’s $159,000.00 gross, $135,0000 Net before taxes. She worked 3 years on it, $45,000.00 a year. Not bad but I don’t think rich.