Is this normally public information, just made more visible, or is it normally confidential? For union action to work, it seems harsh but reasonable to let people know about people who broke the strike. I don't know enough about the way this system works to know if financial core=broke the strike or not.

eta: It seems more stand up and be counted than blacklist, to me. I mean, aren't blacklists usually a little more covert? And wouldn't any potential employer learn this in the hiring process anyway? Or maybe I'm being hopelessly naive.

My understanding is that, until now, the Guild never commented on which members had resigned from the union.

I have no issues with anyone as long as they didn't work as a writer during the strike. If they did cross the lines, even metaphorically, I would have thought that they would expect repercussions like this. If they didn't, this does seem unfair.

It seems the blacklist is alive and well. Only this time, we've written it ourselves.

Wow. Or maybe someone just has a thorn in his paw about day time soap writers which accounts for most of the list. Maybe it is fair, it just seems weird that all but about four names on that are/were soap writers. Two names left their shows during the strike, but because they went fi core, are they in the same group? The list is probably fair in that it is factual, but should this be the short list of people who are pelted with vegetables? IDK

It seems more stand up and be counted than blacklist, to me. I mean, aren't blacklists usually a little more covert? And wouldn't any potential employer learn this in the hiring process anyway? Or maybe I'm being hopelessly naive.

I think of a blacklist as something negative that is done to someone else for (justice, vengence, retribution) whatever, while stand up and be counted is usually voluntary and within control of the person whose name is being published. The whole thing is strange so I don't know if there is a right and wrong.

I see your point, Austin. Huh.

The whole thing is strange so I don't know if there is a right and wrong.

Have you ever been around a union or union action? Have you seen how the dynamics work?

Unions enforce their lines.

We don't like to think of it that way, but we have lunch time because assholes with the Pinkertons busted Unions and the Unions had to bust back. As Victor notes, this is nothing really. A bunch of soap opera writers sold out the unions who guaranteed their healthcare and now they get called out for it.

I understand the dynamics of unions.

I wasn't saying these people were innocent. I just wondered were these the only ones who crossed the lines or, as it seems here, is this a subgroup? These people were the only ones that crossed the line the entire time? I guess I wouldn't object to their names being published as "these, and only these, are the ones who broke the strike" (who am I kidding, yes I would) if I knew this was the complete list but I just find it hard to believe that only these 15ish ( I'm not looking at the list right now) violated the strike. Or are these the only people that can be accounted for on paper?

Off to watch "Matewan"

Loads of people crossed the line, in truth, including many of the biggest show runners. Although you could argue they weren't writing.

Heh. I presume this is why they don't usually publish lists.