Wet WGA Members Picket Soap Studios
Striking Writers Man Manhattan Lines Outside ‘One Life To Live’
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 2/1/2008 2:05:00 PM
Amidst rain and hail Friday, the striking Writers Guild of America East held a “large-scale” picket outside the One Life To Live studios in Manhattan.
More than 125 WGA members manned the lines, and when their picket signs got soaked they wrote their messages on their yellow rain slickers, which became billboards proclaiming the “On Strike” message.
The chant of the day, according to the WGA, was “We’re wet, we’re cold, but we will not fold.”
Tina Fey, Eric Begosian, Vincent D’Onofrio, Katie Erbe and screenwriter Bill Goldman joined the picketers today, as did WGA East president Michael Winship and executive director Mona Mangan.
Both Winship and daytime writer Judy Tate addressed the crowd, which included Seth Meyers, Tom Fontana, John Markus and Adam Brooks.
Also out Friday at the demonstration were the writing staffs of the New York-based late-night shows --Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report.
In addition, the writers of The Late Show With David Letterman, which has reached an interim deal with the union, continued to show their solidarity with their fellow writers by sending representatives to participate in the picket.
The WGA has been on strike since Nov. 5.
