Celebrity contestants on 'Dancing With the Stars' season 32 aren't breaking SAG-AFTRA strike protocols by appearing on the reality show, but they will be crossing a WGA picket line. Here's why.
.) Doing similar writing this season would therefore involve "scab" labor as long as the strike lasts.
WGA members maintain that allowing such a show to return to air uncontested will only prolong the strike, just as representatives of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers"By appearing on a WGA-covered show using scab writing, anyone appearing on Dancing With the Stars will be emboldening the AMPTP to refuse to make deals while they wait to see if scab writing works," picketing writer David Slack wrote on social media.season 32 is still set to launch Tuesday, Sept.
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