Writer’s Strike Aftermath: NBC and HFP may SUE WGA over Golden Globes
13/02/2008
Posted by Michael as News, Writer's Strike at 3:17 PM EST
You know, sometimes you read something so freaking stupid that it just makes your head hurt. That was the case when I read this post over at Deadline Hollywood.
Jeff Zucker, the complete and total moron that has decided NBC will no longer make pilots, has now decided that teaming up with the Hollywood Foreign Press to possibly SUE the WGA over the Golden Globes fiasco is a really great idea.
Now, I’ve heard a lot of really stupid things in my time - but the idea of suing a union for picketing is like suing a church group for praying, or suing a little league team for playing baseball.
Frankly, I think even the IDEA of this should result in the immediate end to the Golden Globes. The writers and actors should get together and decide that they really don’t need this one additional pat on the back a year and just boycott the things for life, effectively ending the awards show.
This is absurd.
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3 Responses to: Writer’s Strike Aftermath: NBC and HFP may SUE WGA over Golden Globes
Scott
February 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Well the issue here is that the writers granted exceptions to other awards shows but didn’t do it at the Golden Globes to prove a point. Which seems strange to me because the Globes give awards for screenplay writers, so you think they would have granted an exception to honor their own. They cost a lot of people money and not just the already rich, but the “lower” end peole like event workers, the limo drivers, the stylists, etc. It doesn’t seem entirely fair that they didn’t grant the Globes an exception. I do agree though that a law suit seems a bit much.
Michael
February 13th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
@Scott
Yeah, I get what you’re saying, but if a court of law decides that a major corporation on the other side of a strike can sue the opposing side for damages after a strike - then striking in this country is over, and unions become completely pointless.
It just seems like a lawsuit that no court is going to allow NBC to win, so it’s really kind of a waste of everyone’s time.
Alex
March 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Contracts have been pretty much sacrosanct since the earliest days of the republic. When you make promises for consideration, and breach those promises, the law furnishes a remedy, strike or no. Interference with business relations is also a well established common law tort. Actions have consequences, and telling others to go back on their promised word will have a comeuppance of its own.
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