General Hospital writer says the soap is now using “scab writers”

Actors from daytime soaps aren't currently on strike with the rest of SAG-AFTRA, so they can keep filming as long as they have scripts

, actors on daytime soaps operate under a different agreement than the SAG-AFTRA members who are currently on strike . That means these soaps aren’t struck projects for actors, so they can keep filming as long as there are scripts… but therein lies the problem, since they are struck for the WGA.offers up the possibility of using scab writers very casually , noting that the soaps will still be “churning” out scrips “using Fi-core and other non-member writers.

, and it explains that choosing to go Fi-core during a strike is “forever,” meaning they will not be allowed to rejoin the union later.

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