Picketing Under Way in TV Writers Strike

NEW YORK -- Noisy pickets appeared outside the "Today" show set on Monday as a strike by film and television writers got under way. The strike is the first walkout by the writers since 1988. That work stoppage lasted 22 weeks and cost the industry more than $500 million. On Monday morning, a giant, inflated rat was displayed as about 40 people in Rockefeller Center shouted, "No contract, no shows!" "The seven-word mantra is, 'When you get paid, we get paid,'" said Michael Winship, president of the Writers Guild of America East. Full story...

Posted by Editor at November 6, 2007 12:03 PM