# Writers Guild of America goes on strike (5/2/23) tentative deal (9/25/23) Now accepted (10/9/23) **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23-tentative-deal-9-25-23-now-accepted-10-9-23/983448 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Tags:** ai **Created:** [May 2, 2023, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23-tentative-deal-9-25-23-now-accepted-10-9-23/983448 "2023-05-02T04:36:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 194
### Author: ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness) #### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23-tentative-deal-9-25-23-now-accepted-10-9-23/983448/194 "2023-09-06T18:05:09Z")
Here’s a thread where we can take the more general discussion of union actions. > [@Labor 101, or why strikes are okay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/labor-101-or-why-strikes-are-okay/989700): > > In a thread about the [WGA strike](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23/983448/192) (edit: and [in a related thread about the SAG-AFTRA strike](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sag-aftra-strike-is-a-go/987002/238)), there’s a lot of disagreement over what unions can and should do. The problem is that a lot of the objections to WGA and SAG-AFTRA actions are, as far as I can tell, based either on ignorance of how labor unions work, or a bone-deep objection to the idea of effective organized labor. But figuring out why exactly people are objecting–ignorance, or antipathy to labor–was getting us pretty far away from the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23-tentative-deal-9-25-23-now-accepted-10-9-23/983448)._