Actors Union Copies Writers’ Script

By David Moberg

Strikes are rare these days. And winning one is almost as rare as sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker. But the three-month Writers Guild strike against the television and film studios that ended in February won important rights for creative workers, and proved that a group of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    My feeling is that every time a union strikes, it makes itself just that much more unpopular, and reinforces the thuggish nature of unions in general these days in the minds of more and more people. 

    Seems to me that businesses are doing whatever they can to avoid getting mixed up with unions in the first place.  A short-term victory for the writers, but the whole thing did nothing but piss a lot of people off, and cost a lot of people of all income levels tons of money.

    United States Posted by Natalie on Mar 20, 2008 at 11:37 AM
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