WGA Continues to Whine!

J.J. Jackson* | January 6, 2008 

The babies at the Writers Union are still in a tizzy over the fact that Jay Leno would dare to write his own material.

So now let me update with the WGA’s side of the story my previous posting: NBC Claims Jay Asked For & Received WGA Permission To Write Monologue At Secret Monday Meeting With Verrone. The guild acknowledges that the meeting with Jay took place on December 31st but has significantly different details from NBC’s account of the confab with the WGA West president and other guild members. “No, Patric Verrone did not say ‘We’re going to look the other way,’ I don’t recall him every saying anything that could be construed as giving Jay the OK to write a monologue,” the spokesperson designated by the WGA to talk to me because he was at the meeting told me tonight. “NBC is trying to stir things up. I think they want to take the focus off their own refusal to bargain in good faith. And instead of having people aware of the real dispute, which is between NBC and the WGA, they want to put Jay Leno in the middle.”

Who BLEEPING cares! If Jay can write his own material and doesn’t need guidance from the Writers union as to what is and is not funny who cares!

This is America. I thought we had freedom?

But I guess we don’t – not if a union is involved. At that point it is the union uber alles and how dare you do their job for them.

Again, OBVIOUSLY the writers are not needed as much as they think they are so why did they go on strike commanding that they be paid more money? The only way they can continue to be needed is to unionize and strong arm people in to recognizing them. And when that doesn’t work? Well whining is always an option.

When the Union went on strike they decided that they were not going to do their jobs.  At that point the people that employ their members can make a choice.  Deal with the union - or find other people to do their job for them.  The problem is that too many unions think that when they go on stike that they have the right to force the employers to deal with them and only them.

Not in a free market.  When you walk off the job, you take your chances.


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One Response to “WGA Continues to Whine!”

  1. Ms. Peacock on January 6th, 2008 1:06 pm

    What a pathetic crew! “Pay us!” “Pay us!” “Hey! How dare you let someone else do ‘our job’!” “Pay us!”

    Talk about not in touch with reality. Where do they think they live? The USSR?

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