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Why Writers Are On Strike with David A. Goodman and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel

Factually! with Adam Conover

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How the Writer's Guild Organizes Things

The writer's guild is a union that mobilizes member power, Goodman says. Writers fight for their credit in the 1930s when they didn't have any control over it. There were things called residuals where writers could benefit from reuse of their work. And so now we have a board of directors which is elected. They're writers. There are leaders. I'm on the board currently.

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