[Hugh R]

The WGA also writes for features, not just TV. I work on TV and features, and I rarely watch TV, I always seem to have other things to do in the evening. As was pointed out by Matt, Speed, History, Discovery and even Ken Burns shows like the Civil War and the other documentaries he's done are written by members of the WGA.

I kind of side with the WGA. If you right a book and publish it you get royalties. If you buy a DVD of a movie for $20, the writer gets 3 cents in residuals. If they didn't have a "Union" or Guild, they wouldn't have gotten even that. The unions and guilds in Hollywood are quite different from say the UAW or the United Steelworkers. By that, I mean they understand that intellectual property like a movie script is portable and can be filmed in places other than Hollywood. The UAW, and their ilk, have seen their "immovable" factories in Michigan move or close after it was too late.