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Here are more details on my exclusive, Hyphenate Accused Of Breaking Strike Rules Brought Before WGA Disciplinary Panel:
I understand no action was taken against the writer-producer yesterday afternoon. He is being called back in front of the WGAW’s new Strike Rules Compliance Committee (SRCC) next week.
I’m told it wasn’t a WGA writer, or any scribe for that matter, who ratted him out. Instead, the guild was tipped off by one of his former representatives as well as a group of office assistants, not WGA members themselves but nevertheless supportive of the writers cause, who say they witnessed the hyphenate’s alleged actions first hand.
I’m told the writer-producer is accused of doing rewrites on his currently airing TV series as well as two projects in pre-production, one of which is still on schedule to begin shooting very soon.
Besides being a producer and a member of the WGA, the hyphenate is also a member of another guild.
(FYI: I cannot name the writer for legal reasons. Please refrain from making named accusations in your comments, even obliquely, or I will have to delete them.)
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And you think we should be surprised by this? It’s going on in every lot… D.
David G. writes: “And you think we should be surprised by this? It’s going on in every lot… D.”
No, it’s not.
I guess he’s betting that his TV show will never be canceled, because it’s going to be his last.
I have no pity on fi-core and other scabs.
Surprised? Nah. Just a bit of schadenfreude that they were caught.
So maybe it is happening in every lot. That doesn’t speak to the effectiveness of the strike. Nothing is ever 100%.
Are a few people scabbing? Yes.
Is the strike killing an entire season – perhaps two seasons – of network television and pushing back production dates on untold high profile films? Yes.
At what point should this person’s name revealed? Just asking… I understand that we don’t want to randomly accuse people – and thus damage their careers – but this person is undermining a labor action, undermining his own guild! We are each picketing four hours a day, and he’s busy stabbing us in the back. I think it is incumbent upon the SRCC to take quick and decisive once they have strong evidence and then… release the name to the public. If there are no penalities, no punsihment for the “scab” who is doing this, then I fear that more writers will scab, because – “hey, nobody will ever know and the WGA won’t do anything but meet privately and scold us.” The WGA can’t be afraid of big name showrunners – a scab is a scab is a scab. The strike will be severely weakened if this goes unpunished…
“Former representative?” What the !@#$% is that? I read “former representative” to be “fired representative,” and if I’m right, the committee should take any of his/her testimony with a Texas-sized grain of salt. Lord knows my fired, er, “former” manager would accuse me of eating small children if given the chance.
When this is all said and done… and proven… I would certainly like to know the name of the scab. I don’t want to work for them or be assosicated with them in any way. The name must be revealed so we writers can choose if we want to work with them and or them.
Well, while if this is true, he certainly shouldn’t be undermining the guild or the strike rules,
HOWEVER, please don’t tell me that he was reported by some well meaning former rep and office assistants who really care about the strike or the writers demands – this is clearly a time when payback comes around and if people can screw each other they will. If it had been a guild member reporting on him, that would make more sense that it was done in the name of justice.
No, his name should not be revealed. If he is found guilty of what he is doing after a fair hearing, he should be justly punished. But the WGA of all the unions in this country, should be the very last to ever blacklist people.
Yes, the fact that these accusations came from a former (read: fired) representative automatically makes me assume this is a case of the agent/manager getting revenge. Not unlike the kind of women who, when dumped by her boyfriend, will accuse him of rape, battery or God knows what else just to get back at him.
Thanks to the office assistants for having the courage and integrity to speak up.
I applaud the hyphenate. He was probably trying to keep his projects on track so all the innocent people being hurt could get back to work and save their houses and families. No, I son’t consider the writers part of the innocent people. They are spoiled childhood having an organized tantrum. I am referring to the grips, electricians, etc.
Everyone knows who it is. There were rumblings before the strike began, the fellow in question has just been caught following through on his threats. Best of luck to him.
You know, the day after the big showrunners picket, I was in the middle of my commute when I suddenly thought (thank you subconscious), “Hey, I didn’t see Handsome Famous Hyphenate Lunatic Who Hasn’t Had a Good Show since the Mid-90s” there. I haven’t seen said lunatic (well known to be “idiosyncratic,” not to mention totally selfish and self-absorbed). Haven’t seen him at any of the rallies either. That doesn’t mean anything, but even Shonda Rimes, who has always been ambigious at best about the value of this whole “TV” thing, was at the showrunners picket. Now, eyes decieve, and I know NOTHING, but I just looked up Lunatic’s Wikipedia entry, and wow, under “Recent Projects,” what do tou know, he has two projects in the works, one underway, and one in development. Huh. He was perfectly charming the one time I met him, but he should hear what people say about him behind his back!
Witchhunt, nothing more nothing less.
nuff said writes: “Witchhunt, nothing more nothing less.”
No. Not “nuff said.”
You actually have to prove your point to be taken seriously.