John Ridley

The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.

Throughout the strike, there regularly were news stories about dissension in the Writers Guild. Writers dissent for breakfast. Finding dissent in the WGA is like finding sand at the beach.

I expect the AMPTP to make a deal with the DGA and then announce that the WGA could have had the same deal three months ago if only our leaders had been professionals or were better negotiators.

When union members like John Ridley go Fi-Core they sacrifice nothing while gaining everything that others have suffered for. Are they entitled to do that? Yes.

John Ridley was patting a writer on the back for his good sense. Kudos! That writer was himself, and he was 100 percent wrong in what he was saying, but it's a start.

No one thinks the strike is fun. No one. The viral videos are fun. The ridiculing blogs are fun. The strike? Quite awful. But John Ridley, for whatever unknown reason, wants you to think otherwise.

Here's the part of Ridley's argument that really confuses me: He doesn't mention that the studios want to cut our pay. That's kind of a big issue to overlook. When describing a labor dispute.