www.thewrap.com: Writers Guild of America members at PBS authorized a strike of PBS. The strike will happen if management does not agree to a fair deal before the current contract expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 21. This decision came after the network failed to come to the negotiation table for weeks.
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In the current state of the world, I worry about public television and public radio doing the way of the dinosaur. I believe that they are so beneficial to the underlying community and to not have them would be a detriment to society. However, I also believe that writers should be given good working conditions and fair pay for the amount of work they do. I wonder how long this strike will last, and I can only hope, for the sake of public television and radio, that they come to an agreement so that they can continue to make the programs that uplift the community. I love PBS and so it’s a shame to hear that their writer’s are not compensated appropriately for all the work they do to get the program on the screen. I will definitely be keeping up with this as it progresses in the news to see how long the writer’s strike for and if they reach an agreement with the studio. All in all, I can only hope that the union is able to accomplish the things they deserve. But I do wonder how this will change public television and radio.
I have been watching PBS programs since I was very young. I fondly remember watching episodes of Dinosaur Train and Odd Squad as a child, and the PBS newshour as a preteen and teen. Shows like Nature that PBS produced were shows I would watch sometimes, but not as frequently. For someone who watches so much PBS I’m surprised that I didn’t know that the writers were planning a strike, especially because I usually pay attention to these things, and this has been ongoing. I hope the writers get the compensation they deserve sooner than later, given the disruption to the entertainment industry that the drawn out writers and actors strikes caused last year. It is in the best interest of all the parties involved for the PBS employers to end the strike as soon as possible. I know from personal experience that drawn out strikes are destructive and raise tensions within the workplace.
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