Dick Wolf on the WGA Strike
FlickFilosopher.com, 12.28.07
By MaryAnn Johanson
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During the course of the conference, the inevitable topic of the writers’ strike came up. Here’s what Wolf, inarguably one of the most powerful people in television, had to say about it:
"I think the strike is the worst thing that’s happened to the community in 20 years, since the last strike. Nobody ever wins a strike. This is a disaster for the television business much more than the feature business. And my sincerest hope is that people get their heads on straight, lock themselves in a room, and come out with a deal. It’s an absolute necessity.
I have a horrifying feeling that it’s going to be a lot longer unless this is solved very, very quickly, in the next ten days or two weeks, which I don’t see in the cards right now. It could be a horrifically long strike. I mean the last one was five months and two weeks." Full article
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2 Comments:
We had a strike here in our town last year by our biggest employer, Sikorsky Aircraft-the city had to provide extra police to patrol the strikers and protect them and the public on a very business roadway-the strikers got nothing in return but what the company initially offered them-but we the town taxpayers got stuck with a whopping bill for police overtime and under the law we can neither bill Sikorsky's of the Teamsters-
just stuck in the middle again-
Regi.
It doesn't seem that the parties involved are even talking..... Seems Hollyweird is quite happy to be losing $21,000,000 a day!
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