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Yes. There was a major strike of screenwriters in 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

Yes. There was a major strike of screenwriters in 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_Ame...

erikb 9y ago
"lately" That's almost a decade ago.
- tboyd47 9y ago
  Good point!
  - jboynyc 9y ago
    A few others from the past decade which were covered by the country's few remaining serious labor journalists. Some were also written about in books [1] or documented in film [2]. 2008: Puerto Rico teachers strike. 2008: Stella D'Oro strike. 2011: Occupy Oakland and unions shut down the port following a call for a general strike. 2012: Chicago teachers strike. 2012: Republic Windows and Doors strike and occupation. 2013: Fast food workers strike in 58 U.S. cities. There's an exciting younger generation of labor journalists, and a good way to keep tabs on what they are covering is through Dissent's podcast Belabored (feed at [3]). [1]: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1569-strike-for-america https://www.versobooks.com/books/1569-strike-for-america [2]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981035/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981035/ [3]: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/feed/belabored https://www.dissentmagazine.org/feed/belabored
- dkersten 9y ago
  How about the video game voice acting strike? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_video_game_voice_actor_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_video_game_voi...
manmal 9y ago
And notably, scripts from that time really are problematic (somewhat crappy dialogues, weak storylines), and I think some shows even got postponed or cancelled.
- rebuilder 9y ago
  What about revenue, though?
  - SiempreViernes 9y ago
    Famously one of the Michel Bay transformers movies are from that time... honestly I think the strike was too short to make a systematic shift, movie revenues are as a rule highly variable from film to film but the market average I suspect moves relatively slowly.
sandworm101 9y ago
A previous strike closer to 2000 was the birth of "reality television". The original Survivor was pitched on the basis of its immunity to a looming writers strike.
- srtjstjsj 9y ago
  Unions: We demand high pay for high-quality work! Management: We don't want high-quality work. Bye.
ericpearl 9y ago
That strike led to the rise of reality TV. Which led to some people becoming reality TV celebrities. Which led to one of them running for president of the U.S.

Yes. There was a major strike of screenwriters in 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_Ame...

erikb 9y ago

"lately" That's almost a decade ago.

tboyd47 9y ago
Good point!
- jboynyc 9y ago
  A few others from the past decade which were covered by the country's few remaining serious labor journalists. Some were also written about in books [1] or documented in film [2]. 2008: Puerto Rico teachers strike. 2008: Stella D'Oro strike. 2011: Occupy Oakland and unions shut down the port following a call for a general strike. 2012: Chicago teachers strike. 2012: Republic Windows and Doors strike and occupation. 2013: Fast food workers strike in 58 U.S. cities. There's an exciting younger generation of labor journalists, and a good way to keep tabs on what they are covering is through Dissent's podcast Belabored (feed at [3]). [1]: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1569-strike-for-america https://www.versobooks.com/books/1569-strike-for-america [2]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981035/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981035/ [3]: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/feed/belabored https://www.dissentmagazine.org/feed/belabored
dkersten 9y ago
How about the video game voice acting strike? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_video_game_voice_actor_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_video_game_voi...

manmal 9y ago

And notably, scripts from that time really are problematic (somewhat crappy dialogues, weak storylines), and I think some shows even got postponed or cancelled.

rebuilder 9y ago
What about revenue, though?
- SiempreViernes 9y ago
  Famously one of the Michel Bay transformers movies are from that time... honestly I think the strike was too short to make a systematic shift, movie revenues are as a rule highly variable from film to film but the market average I suspect moves relatively slowly.

sandworm101 9y ago

A previous strike closer to 2000 was the birth of "reality television". The original Survivor was pitched on the basis of its immunity to a looming writers strike.

srtjstjsj 9y ago
Unions: We demand high pay for high-quality work! Management: We don't want high-quality work. Bye.

ericpearl 9y ago

That strike led to the rise of reality TV. Which led to some people becoming reality TV celebrities. Which led to one of them running for president of the U.S.