What's with this writers' strike?
Writers across the world strive every day to create manuscripts for books, both print, and audio, along with their counterpart writers who write for movies, television, and radio. Each writer is talented yet underpaid for their talent. The WGA, Writer Guild of America which is a union that covers the talented individuals who make up the stories, and write the dialogue for movies, television, the news, radio, and other outlets within the entertainment industry is currently fighting for the rights and pay of their members and even nonmembers working within the industry. While I am not a member of the WGA, I support their work in fighting for proper pay scale for their talent and ability to create the best characters, dialogue and scenes that help visualize the story they are telling each day of the year. A while back the WGA asked their members to vote as to whether or not they should strike, and their members voted 97.85% yes, so on May 1 of this year the AMPTP, Alliance of Motion Pic