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 democratically empowered workers with public and labor movement solidarity could win against a highly concentrated… return to article
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