So you have professional writers union on strike, fighting over a quintisential new economy issue: digital residual rights.  A lot of folks argue that unions are well and good for unskilled workers, but professional skilled workers really don't benefit from unions.

Obviously. Hollywood unions, teachers, nurses, Boeing engineers and other professional refute that argument.  Sports unions are also some of the strongest unions out there.  Oddly, until the New Deal, the assumption was that unions were really ONLY for skilled workers, that only they had unique enough skills to make collectively withholding their labor effective.  It's actually a modern conceit that sees skilled work and unions as incompatible, since the historic assumption was the exact reverse.

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