I’ve never been a union fan — I’ve often been quite vocal about that.  In case you don’t know, the  Writer’s Guild of America recently went on strike.  What makes this strike more obnoxious is that it’s knocking my favorite show, The Office, off the air. The strike only serves to prove my point about unions, though:  They’re in it for the money.  Says, the Flying Dunce, Sally Field (emphasis added):

[Writers] are not being allowed to participate in the future of the business. This can be a very lucrative field, but also incredibly insecure for all of the artists, writers, actors and directors.

They don’t want safer working conditions or more humane hours as was the case back when unions were respectable.  They want more money, plain and simple.  Here’s the deal:  if you work for someone else and create a work product for that person, then he gets to decide what’s done with it.  I don’t get royalties from software I write;  I get a paycheck.  If you don’t like that, don’t work for someone else.  Start your own studio.  You get no sympathy from me you greedy knuckleheads!