# Writers Guild of America goes on strike (5/2/23) tentative deal (9/25/23) Now accepted (10/9/23)

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23-tentative-deal-9-25-23-now-accepted-10-9-23/983448/209 "2023-09-12T18:38:52Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> At some point, the problem may not lie with your readers, @wolfpup. Your support of the strike is very weak, if it precludes WGA-approved pickets of shows you like.

As I’ve said multiple times, there are also other shows I like that have been affected by the WGA strike. I’m positively addicted to my weekly dose of _Last Week Tonight with John Oliver_ and _Real Time with Bill Maher_ and go into withdrawal when they take their summer and their long holiday-season breaks. But these shows need writers who write, and the writers are on strike, so they’re not writing. They’ve been off the air for months now. I’m gasping for lack of political satire. So be it. These are unions engaged in their preeminent right to strike. Have you heard me complaining? So maybe it’s really true that my complaint about shutting down the production of _Evil_ really is about the specific nature of this one particular union action.

> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> There’s a pattern in social justice movements, where people are like, “I support you in theory, how dare you say I don’t support you in theory, but this time you’re going too far!” It’s why I recommend folks regularly reread MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and take its principles to heart.

In other to avoid a further hijack here, I’m going to respond to that in the GD thread that you created about unions in general (link below).  
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