Striking Writers Back at Table

by via James Parks, AFL-CIO

Wed, Dec 5, 2007 6:53AM

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 : Christopher Meloni, star of NBC's "Law and Order: SVU" joined the striking writers on the picket line in New York last week. As negotiators for striking writers and TV and movie producers return to the bargaining table today, the writers are reaffirming their determination to keep talking until they gain a fair contract.

Members of the Writers Guild have been on strike since Nov. 5. Striking writers and their supporters are on the picket lines at major studios in New York and California in a drive to win an equitable contract that addresses how writers are paid as new media plays a bigger and bigger role in the entertainment industry.

The writers are seeking a formula for fair compensation for their work when it is broadcast on the Internet, downloaded to iPods or cell phones or distributed via DVD.

Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) President Michael Winship, in a letter to members, says the strike has become a movement

inspiring not only our own membership but folks throughout organized labor, across the country and all over the world. Public support has been overwhelming and inspiring. Our high profile actions have come to symbolize discontent with the status quo in general, and specifically with the overreaching greed of the global mega-corporations that own the media.

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For more information: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/04/striking...

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