"Union officials said that barring a last-minute deal, the strike would begin at 3:01 a.m. EST and picket lines would go up in Los Angeles and New York City."
Nobody likes a strike. But being part of a union that has constantly capitulated to the demands of producers for twenty five years, I'm glad to see the Writer's Guild standing firm. Our issues are very different. With us technicians, the argument is always, give us producers what we want or we'll shoot somewhere else (Canada, Romania, Argentina). But with the dollar worthless on international markets, there is almost no place in the world that's cheaper to shoot these days.
The pictures are of me in 1993 on the picket line against the producers of "Harts of the West", a short lived CBS series. I entered the union on this series.
Read more about the impending screenwriters strike here
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