UK Writers Union Tells Members: Don't Be US Scabs

The Guardian (U.K.):

The Writers Guild of Great Britain has pitched into the Hollywood battle over digital distribution rights, calling for UK writers to support the strike and not supply material to US broadcasters.

WGGB has urged its members not to fill in for their colleagues on US TV shows, saying that strike breaking would reap only short-term pay and have devastating affects on American writers.

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Comments

[1will]

I'm not really interested in the writer's strike. As far as I'm concerned most of what Hollywood turns out is crap and socially destructive. When the few show I watch go into reruns I look foward to making a few extra visits to Barnes & Noble.

[Ginzaman]

Well said. The opposite was done a long time ago in the U.K. American scab writers (Barry Levinson and other now big names) worked on shows there. Besides, they have enough problems with the BBC and some commercial networks as it is.