Since November 5, the Writer's Guild of America has been on strike, negotiating several issues such as DVD residuals, union jurisdiction over reality program and animation writers, and the most important issue they are dealing with: compensation for new media-written for or distributed through digital technology such as the internet.
Those 3 issues have kept the WGA on strike through the new year and as most citizens are unhappy, not getting to see their new shows, the employees are the ones beginning to worry. Surveying the damage, many people are losing their jobs due to the strike. Warner Bros. announced that at least 1,000 people would be receiving a WARN mailings, something basically saying that layoffs are inevitable.
It's interesting to read many of the different articles written regarding the WGA strike and I only look forward to what the outcome will be. Personally I don't have my own opinion of the strike at this moment, as I have only recently become intrigued by the issue and have yet to pick a side. Yet I do say that I wish it upon nobody to lose their job over something that may not be necessary.
The last WGA strike lasted 21 weeks in 1988, and we are now into the 10th week of of this new writer's strike, and the only thing we can do is wonder when it will last, when the writer's will finally be happy and negotiations have been made to fit the best needs of everyone.
Until Next Time...
G~
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