WGA - "As Long As It Takes."

[frejtlejs]

until the cows come home, i like that =)

keep it up you guys!

[RVCz]

i support u

[1BrknHrtdRomeo]

"As Long As It Takes"

now that there would make a great t-shirt WGA slogan xD

[startxthexrevolution]

I support you guys all the way! I love my shows, but I'm willing to wait for them so you can get paid fairly! Way to go and keep it up!

[skyfire1]

Fuck the writers. They suck.

[azupokedigioh]

What I don't seem to understand is why they haven't tried to figure out A SOLUTION. No one seems to WANT to find a solution, a middle where EVERYONE is happy, not only the writers, but the fans, the directors, and anyone else who deserves to be happy (which is everyone, if you think about it). If anyone can try to explain that to me, please feel free to reply.

[nopantsman320]

I don't see why the networks don't give in.

[camshaff]

Hope you've noticed how much better Leno and Conan are without the hack writers. Writers trying to cash in on the free internet--disgusting losers using union mob tactics to bring down the industry that provided them the luxury lifestyles so that they can loaf as long as it takes to bankrupt the Producers that have provided them everything they have. Shameless America haters unite to allow Bollywood to infiltrate American media. Well, at least there is that justice.

[KiernanMooney]

You honestly think that these guys are 'loafing around.' They're out there every fucking day fighting for their future. The internet is a HUGE influence on media today and if the writers do not get paid their Internet and DVD residuals, there will be no way for them to earn a living. Hollywood writers are not multi-millionares, they are WORKING CLASS, and the producers and big corporate television companies are taking advantage of that.

[kirktucci]

KiernanMonney, I think camshaff's just a bit restless with all the free time so he's just trying to stir things up a bit. There's also this strange preoccupation with Bollywood....

[webgeek6]

Go WGA! I support you.

[corymcgruder]

The WGA's negotiations with the AMPTP are a complete and utter failure. Some say that the WGA's negotiations with the AMPTP are at an impasse. This is incorrect. The WGA's negotiations with the AMPTP are non-existent. Good luck, writers. With the union leadership you guys have, you are definitely going to need it.

[kirktucci]

How nonexistant are they now Corymcgruder. Informal talks have begun.

[Pervenche09]

The Writers Guild Foundation has established an Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against the AMPTP, which began on November 5, 2007. This Fund is designed to provide emergency assistance for food, housing, transport, medical and other expenses,

[Pervenche09]

and will do this in two ways:

1) Make grants to organizations like The Actors Fund who are already providing emergency financial assistance and comprehensive social services; and

2) Assist individuals who do not qualify for other organizations, or whose financial need is greater than those organizations can provide. The IS Fund will not provide cash assistance but, where appropriate, may pay one or more bills on behalf of the applicant.

[kenjjin]

stop ur bitchin and get back to work fucking americans always wanting more money they lost more now then they ever could have made by striking.its your job "you gotta do what you gotta do"now all the shows are going to lose thousands of veiwers just because of the year gap

[KiernanMooney]

Just remember who creates the shows you so desperately enjoy.

[Pervenche09]

WGA just issued a relief fund for industry workers (non wga members) to help with our financial hardship due to this strike. Such as your house being lost , food , utilities , and loss of medical benefits, ect. Check it out if you need the help info on( BTLNEWS,COM )under strike blogs... or if your a non wga member and need info seek out below the line magazine for info on line

wgfoundation,org/supportfund

[minecritter]

I support the writers. It's just crazy for the studios to broadcast their work on the internet forever, rake in internet advertising dollars forever, and share NOTHING with the writers, or even actors.

[KiernanMooney]

Fucking THANK YOU!

[Stile4aly]

I've been boycotting DVDs and internet distribution of media since the strike began. Solidarity.

[Bobby61557]

When you guys start losing your home sna cars and other such things as yourability to buy food your as long as it takes will become Et To Brute. Greed is for the losers. This is about greed and yall know it. Someone will get your jobs

[MadScout]

But, it won't be you, asshole, because you don't have the brains, let alone the guts, to be a writer. So shut up, penis lips.

[KiernanMooney]

I agree with you up until you called the dude 'penis lips.' Just let him live contently being a bitch to the Big guy, no need to name call here.

And yes, I understand the hypocrisy in that statement.

[Bubbi54]

For as long as it takes? Well it will be a very long time indeed since the WGA is NOW more interested in a power grab that "new media". They want to grow their Union by including reality & animation plus sympathy strikes. What the heck is that about? Power,egos,revenge are now what the WGA is about. Very soon writers will be scabs crossing the picket line.

[bodnotbod]

Go writers! \O/

[Arl2ene]

For as long as it takes -- I will not cross your invisible picket line!

[Bobby61557]

Im betting some other writer will Call them what you want but they will ahve your job Got Starving kids?

[alliewobbles]

Keep it up WGA!!! The fans are behind you and a lot of us are boycotting TV and internet videos on the network websites until you get the fair deal you deserve. I really miss my Supernatural episodes (we love you Kripke & Sera Gamble!!) but I'm willing to wait for however long this strike goes on. In the meantime, stay strong!

WRITERS WRITE THE SHOW, NETWORKS SHUT THEIR CAKEHOLE.

[linfinster]

Keep it up!! I don't watch TV, go to the movies (much), wont catch in the mall.

[ClubPenguinX]

I WANT THE OFFICE TO COME BACK

[mismindles]

I feel 4 the writer's. What bites is that I HATE HATE HATE reality TV & that is what we'll be stuck w/ 4 what looks like is going 2 B a while. What's going 2 happen is that no quality TV sends people 2 the internet 2 places like YT & before U know it, you've lost a lot of tv viewers. I use to watch a lot of tv, but reality took over more & more & eventually I quit watching almost all tv b/c every time I liked a show it got canceled & replaced by reality so I gave up. Producers need to wake up.

[Lonewolfjedi]

Hang in there, guys, do it for like it says, as long as it takes

[croat88]

I HAVE IDEA!!!!!!

Turn the Writer's Strike into a show. Just get some cameras and the writers could be actors. I am not just talking about putting a camera in front of the writers and getting their opinion, but an actual story. They certainly have enough writers for the job. It should carry the message but be entertaining enough to get people to watch. It would certainly give them publicity :D

[askacapper]

this is a great idea...

[jaceydotlau]

Haha I like the guy who said seven years. <3

Hang in there WGA!

[flychiqk]

Hang in there guys! I wish we could get more support for you guys from the general public. Stay strong.

[corymcgruder]

The WGA miscalculated. They called a strike without having much, if anything, to bargain with. In order to bargain, you have to have something the other side needs. The WGA does not have anything the AMPTP needs. The AMPTP can get plenty of stuff to air on its networks from sources other than the WGA. This strike was ill-timed. The WGA, the DGA, and the SAG should have all bargained together, since they all want the same thing (internet revenues). It would have made more of a statement.

[fishroscoe]

I agree WGA is in trouble. Good luck

[kirktucci]

The DGA got what it did bargaining with AMPTP because of leverage provided by the WGA strike. Ulitimately, will the WGA get more bacause of this, we'll see but I hope so. The writers do have something the AMPTP wants though, content.

[Pervenche09]

They had been speaking with the amptp informally for 2 years regarding this contract..they got what they got because they set out with a good plan and commuincation straight away before they had to come to a strike... they don't even have to sign a deal now since they don't expire until june 30th...not to mention they have always been like this in regards to their contracts and protacol...lol y7ou crack me up...lol leaverage...lol

[kirktucci]

The DGA contracts have notoriously been known to not provide a lot ultimately. The AMPTP knows this and therefore wanted to deal with them first and then try to lord this deal over the other guilds heads and play it for as much press as possible.

[Pervenche09]

You are funny to believe that... All I have to say is they have never gone on strike and always have had forward progress and their leaders never signed away there writes in which you have to fight now to regain piece by piece.... look to each his own i am sure applies here bottom line every union , guild and network need one another to actually make this industry work...it's a puzzel and with out one piece or another the puzzel is an incomplete work of art....

[kirktucci]

The wga signing away residuals will occur if they don't build on the framework of the dga plan, not accept it as it is. Residuals aren't as important to the dga, where over 60%of its members don't make residuals.

[Pervenche09]

Nobody said they had to except the dga plan..they only asked you to build from it. Since the talks had become stalled this is a new opening. but again a foot in the door to new media on a 3 year contract is better then continueing this havoc on the industry.. dga have given a gift of opening doors again..that is it...

[kirktucci]

A new opening is welcome, but the DGA plan would have been a fine counter offer in November. This is no "Foot in the door" but a lame offer which will once again likely not be revisited, as cable and DVD's have notoriously not been in the past.

[jonnystranger]

Don't back down! Write hard.  Die free.

[KeevayMusic]

PRAYER FOR AMERICA....the Controversial Video from Mysterious CATMAN COHEN

"We don't need more glitzy Hollywood award events, we need more sewage treatment plants."

"We don't need more gargantuan shopping malls, we need more water pumping facilities."

"We don't need more super-dome sports stadiums, we need more hospitals."

"We don't need more mean-spirited celebrity gossip-mongers, we need more humane rescue workers, environmentalists, and human rights activists."

[mismindles]

so none of these sewage treatment plant & water pumping facility builders and workers or rescue workers, doctors, nurses, environmentalists or human rights activists watch television, go to the mall, a sporting event, or the movies?

[KeevayMusic]

PRAYER FOR AMERICA....the Controversial Video from Mysterious CATMAN COHEN

"Some things just don't make sense anymore: if society pays a young songwriter royalties on a single creation until the day he dies, then why not pay a fireman equivalent royalties in perpetuity for his own 'act of art,' namely the extinguishment of a single, major fire in which many lives

are saved?"

[mismindles]

Oh- it makes perfect sense. No money will exchange hands again once the fireman saves a life. His job is to save lives & homes, builings etc. and he gets compensation for it, but in the case of the writer- if U pay him once, then air his episode once! If U want 2 make money off his episode over & over on the internet or your network, then pay him for it! Y R U so bent out of shape a/b it?

[Bobby61557]

So if I buy a shovel and dig a hole thats ok but if I want to dig another hole I must buy another shovel huh. You get paid for the work and it belongs to someone else at that point The WGA is screaming for money the corprate gets not for anything else. Stop trying to pull wool here

[LAly99]

Good luck!

[UltraHyperShadow]

I find it funny that "The future of my show" was never provided as an answer to the question "What is the hardest part about striking?"

[DariaPhyre]

You guys can hold out! I know you can! I'll put up with bad television for as long as it takes!

[geekgirl45]

As long as it takes, Francis. Go Stokes!

[SeriousStudent]

I understand and respect that guilded writers are no longer willing to work without a contract that they consider fair even if their primary issue is residuals, which most people never receive for any of our work (most of us just get paid once for the work we do and that is that), but I am surprised that none of the writers featured in this video answered "What is the hardest part about striking?" with compassion for the other people they have put out of work leading into the holidays.

[summergirl719]

Stay Strong!

[jannakal]

"Striker's foot." Ha!

Stay strong, stay united, stay witty. Good luck, guys :)

[mahowel]

Stay on strike, maybe America will wake up and realize that they can live without the stupid shit that they write ;)

[MakeMoovement]

haha "at 7 years"

[krazykizza]

WGA rules if i was a writer id be a member

[linus108Nicole]

you have 100% of my support for AS LONG AS IT TAKES! :)

[anniekate76]

Keep it up, writers! The fans are behind you!!!

[heine71]

January 7, 2007: The WGA resumes picketing and after that anytime they want to they return to the bargening table to end the strike.

[heine71]

OOPS! I mean January 7, 2008!

[robtran]

SOLIDARITY FOREVER, folks! You have plenty of support amongst the general public!

[heine71]

Did somebody say pie? MMMMMMMM...PIE!

[robtran]

'Tis the season, no? ;-)

[badgrammar]

you have my support 100%, keep fighting the good fight! in the meantime, i've canceled my cable tv and started reading more books.

[beautifulGRBG]

You guys, youre hard work will pay off...just avoid the douche in the porsche!

Keep strong, Keep United

[DanielleTBD]

I'm a BTL (Local 871) member, and I fully support the WGA in their decision to keep striking. I've even walked the picket line to stand in solidarity. Yes, the strike is hurting me badly financially, as I am a single income family working paycheck to paycheck, but unions are here to protect workers from producers and studios trying to exploit them. We work extremely long hours in this business, entertaining the masses, and we deserve compensation for the hard work.

[josephcn1]

a great way for writers to burn calories?

[MadScout]

True. Some are fat. A win-win situation. :D

[alexlaw45]

i support them BUT PLEASEE I BEG OF YOU, GO BACK TO WORK.. I CANT HANDLE RE-RUNS LOL

[chrizjohn15]

Blame the produs.

[sparky6768]

you guys still have my support!!

[llthgig]

still have my support.

[BryyMillerson]

Wow, that has to be the lamest anti-WGA reply yet.

[krazykizza]

im not anti WGA fool read my previous comments

[BryyMillerson]

Sounded pretty inflammatory, my apologies.

[ThePricanBouncer]

I admire you all! Keep Strong!!!

[raoulthompson]

just curious, you support writers so much, do you even know or care that 80% of the staff on those shows are losing their jobs and will be unable to return? Are you aware they make in most cases half or less of what writers already make? Supporting the wga is a slap in the face to the caterers, drivers, techs, grips, operators, directors, editors, makeup artists, assistants, etc. who have been unable to support their family this holiday season. Please rethink your opinion.

[slicklet]

if that were so the other unions wouldn't be supporting them.

[KiheiLawyer]

"As long as it takes" We shall see. I think that 1 guy who said he can hold out for 3 months and then he is got of money to pay his mortgage. When the writers can no longer pay their mortgages, say GOOD BYE union. And, if writers truly can hold out for years, it just shows they were paid too much in the first place. However, 1 year from now do this same video and see how many of these people say "as long as it takes".

[MadScout]

You're such an asshole. Fair is fair, and the WGA members deserve a fair deal.

[raoulthompson]

just curious, you support writers so much, do you even know or care that 80% of the staff on those shows are losing their jobs and will be unable to return? Are you aware they make in most cases half or less of what writers already make? Supporting the wga is a slap in the face to the caterers, drivers, techs, grips, operators, directors, editors, makeup artists, assistants, etc. who have been unable to support their family this holiday season. Please rethink your opinion.

[MadScout]

That's true. The production crews will lose out, but would you prefer the writers be exploited for their work, not getting their fair due?

FACT: The WGA DIDN'T want to strike, but the studios and networks forced their hands by being a bunch of D.B. Nortons and Ebenezer Scrooges, and the crewmates are, sadly, collateral damage.

[opiateantagonist]

Fact: No one is forced into a strike. It is a CHOICE.

[MadScout]

True, but I rather strike than be exploited while working.

[goddessbecca]

As long as it takes!

I'm an average joe who watches tv. I miss new programing, but I am in full support of the WGA and the strike.

Fair is fair.

[raoulthompson]

just curious, you support writers so much, do you even know or care that 80% of the staff on those shows are losing their jobs and will be unable to return? Are you aware they make in most cases half or less of what writers already make? Supporting the wga is a slap in the face to the caterers, drivers, techs, grips, operators, directors, editors, makeup artists, assistants, etc. who have been unable to support their family this holiday season. Please rethink your opinion.

[robtran]

Yes, isn't a shame that AMPTP doesn't give a damn about anyone or anything but squeezing every last dime of profit from their productions, including the dimes that BELONG TO THE WRITERS. Your "point" is propagandistic and a classic divide-and-conquer strategy, used against unions forever.

[ccalr]

it's truly sad that so many hard working people are being hurt by the big 6 studios (not all producers want this strike). But keep in mind, all the folks you mention enjoyed those jobs because writers first came up with ideas that launched the shows.

[Pervenche09]

In this business not one thing is actually more important with out the other... We all need each other to make a film and it is unfair to so many to say writers are the center of it..they are a part of a great industry of creative wonderful people whos ideas make the words they write truly come to life and breath life into the visions they have placed on paper.even the networks are needed to fully achieve greatness..we are a team and no one sees, it's very sad

[Paradox244]

Very true. Even the executives are a part of the team. You can't make a movie without money, afterall.

[Pervenche09]

thats completely true!!!!!