It's a privilege that can be taken advantage of. It's a difficult thing to assess and monitor. If you want to take a strong stance, you have to have the WGA monitor it. Changing landscape Both camps of writers agree that the environment is significantly different than it was three years ago, when the previous contract was negotiated. But I don't want there to be a strike.
Nobody wants a strike.
Still, I don't think writers are asking for more than they deserve. And then there is that prickly little issue of quality. Some writers rejoice that the potential strike has accelerated development at the studios. Scripts that might have languished in development hell are now fast-tracking into production due to the threat of a strike. But other writers ruminate about what sorts of scripts they might be writing were they not so busy.