Conan pays staff salaries during strike
Conan O'Brien has pledged to begin paying his non-writing, non-striking staff members out of his pocket while the writer's strike continues.
The non-writing staff face being laid off by NBC next week if the strike isn't settled -- all 75 of them. So O'Brien, who is a member of the striking Writer's Guild of America, is shelling out the money himself while his show is on hiatus.
Apparently the staffs for David Letterman and Craig Ferguson have been promised the same deal by Letterman, whose production company owns both shows.
I was wondering what was going to happen to those staffers during the strike.
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