We can now confirm: there will be no WGA strike in 2017. While labor unions as a whole have seemingly lost most of the power they once held in America, one of the few industries where unions still very much matter to the day to day operations is film and TV production. If a project is made by a Hollywood studio, the crew of that project is no doubt made up just about entirely of unionized professionals, and that most definitely includes the writers who write everyone’s favorite scripted TV series and movies. The union governing Hollywood writers is of course the WGA (Writers Guild of America).
In recent weeks, tensions both within the industry and among fans ...
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