WRITERS STRIKE! A Response from the Studios

While most coverage of the Writers Strike focuses on how the WGA is getting a raw deal, this video sheds light on the real victims of this labor dispute.

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[WackdProductions]

Press the button...

Nice.

[LyndaHudson]

GO TV's FRANK!!

[Jcolinsol]

If writers really wanted some return on their work, they should refuse to work for the publishers and studio system. Work independently, then you get to maintain creative control of your work and it's derivatives.

The corporations never should have fooled you into selling them your talents in the first place.

[harliette]

Writers lose so much, as if the money would never come, we are all supposed to show examples of Perseverence, thus I am not behind writers like those.

[ToruTakanuru]

WHo lost during the strike? The answer the Amerian viewer because that is why we have so much stupid reality programing on instead of new ideas and we now watch the internet for new ideas!

[JohnnyDaytonMusic]

A writer who is acting, should at least be reading good copy. This video is bad.

[outlier1985]

Looking back on this whole idiotic issue, they summed it up perfectly on South Park; trading real opportunities in the present for theoretical opportunities that may or may not exist in the future is fucking retarded. All the strike did was allow the WGA and their supporters to club themselves over the head, while maintaining the guise of doing something meaningful, and invoking the tired cliche of the underdog VS 'Big (insert something you dislike here).' Good job.

[wrongheadedfool]

@pezdrake And let's not forget why unions came about in the first place. When workers started unionizing they were working in dangerous conditions where people frequently DIED. There was no job security - you could be fired just for being sick for one day - and on top of all that we had child laborers. Unions exist solely because business owners consistently failed to treat their workers like human beings. They brought unionism on themselves with their atrocious behavior.

[wrongheadedfool]

@ferdmert Sorry, we've had classes from the get-go. Read up on the history of the US, from indentured servitude onward there are always rich and poor. Not everyone gets the same opportunities either. Some folks are born rich, some are born poor. It's how life goes, so let's not pretend it isn't there, eh?

[pezdrake]

@Owain27

You are missing a step there. Companies didn't move from the unionized US to overseas. They moved to "right to work" states and got rid of unions then with no organized labor to stop them they moved overseas. Unions were around for decades and we didn't lose jobs to China. This isn't a labor issue. In fact, it's labor that built up this country for the height of America's power. Look at the decline of unions and the related loss of jobs to overseas. More unions = more US jobs.

[admiralbob02]

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No-talent hacks that Profit from the ability of others.

Frank is the best frank, that's ever happened to me.

[fodsaks]

I bow down before you, oh great Frank!!