Word: strike
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jordan B. Weitzen ’08, whose Eliot House suite is one of the few on campus with access to satellite television, the television writers’ strike this month has come as something of a blessing in disguise. “It gives me more time to concentrate on more important things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater...
...lost them all on that second day that will live in infamy, when their armies of anonymous writers went on strike. Writers Guild of America (WGA), what have you done...
...streets of Los Angeles, the picket lines trail into coffee shops. In the high-rises of Manhattan, the lawyers file into boardrooms. And this is no minor squabble: The strike affects over half a million entertainment jobs in Southern California alone. If the writers last as long as they did in 1988—the full 22 weeks of a TV drama season—it could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion...
...writers must stand together no matter how different we are, because this is a war between labor and management, between teleprompter and teleprompted. So let’s be grateful that our chosen representatives are, unlike most writers, far too rich and stubborn to give up their strike out of poverty or despair. They have gagged America’s voice—and they have found their...
...period, neither could convert. After a slow start to the third period, junior Jenny Brine found the back of the net with just over five minutes to play to bring the score to 5-0. Vaillancourt and Cahow recorded their third assists of the night on the power-play strike. Harvard’s balanced offense and dominant defense were once again key to the team’s success. “We started from the drop of the puck and played a pretty complete game,” Cahow said. The Crimson outshot the Golden Knights...