Writers Guild pickets TV studio
In a protest staged by the Writers Guild of America, West, about 150 pickets rallied outside the production studio of the new TV game show "Temptation" Thursday morning to support a walkout by most of the show's writers. The rally, in front of the Tribune/KTLA Studio gates in Hollywood, was intended to highlight the guild's ongoing efforts to extend union pay and benefits to writers who work in reality television and game shows, an important issue in volatile contract talks between writers and producers. Four of six writers on "Temptation" walked off the job a month ago, protesting what they said was the company's refusal to negotiate a fair contract with the guild.
See "Writers Guild pickets TV studio", Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2007