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For everyone that finds Friends tired and old there is a new generation of viewers that discovers it.

For example, Full House, Cosby and The Brady Bunch are all shows that my current 6th grade students know enough about that they must have watched a few episodes.
My 6 year old twin daughters love Full House as well.

Anyway, the writers cannot be blamed for the workers not getting paid.
I do think that since the media is changing so quickly, the proceeds need to be redistributed fairly.
If things were fair and close to being equal, EVERY SINGLE person who worked on a show worked get a percentage, regardless of what their job title was.
It takes everyone to make the show. In order to make a quality show, the writers are the most important part. Without them, the quality would not be there.
Since it is in their best interest to join the union in order to work, the not so great writers are protected too, not just the quality writers.

Does the writers' union have criteria for joining? Do they have to present scripts or some other examples of their best work?


I am not sure what I think about unions. I belong to the teachers' union. A raise was negotiated last year and we are STILL the lowest paid county in our area.
Due to state and federal budgets cuts (in turn due to the asinine NCLB laws that were not funded properly), the local news made it look like the teachers' raise was the reason that the kindergarten assistants lost their jobs. Even though the real reasons are the state and federal budgets cuts, uneducated parents do not see it that way. We have many uneducated parents in our area.

Our union does fight for us and I am grateful for that. I think that unions are good for the middle class so they do not get taken advantage of, particularly in education and the service fields.