After being one of the only daily hosts to keep taping their shows since the Writer’s Guild strike that started last week, Ellen may have decided to listen business performance management team and nix her taping in New York next week. Guild members had promised to protest the show if she went along with the taping. Ellen slapped them in the face apparently by taping with out them once they went on strike.

Michael Winship, president of the East Coast branch of the Writers Guild, said the organization was “delighted” with DeGeneres’ decision to stay on the West Coast.

“She knows that the Writers Guild East would have been there to protest her lack of solidarity, not only with her Guild writing staff but all the striking members of the Writers Guild, of which she is a member,” Winship said in a statement issued Wednesday.

Seriously…who are these guys? John Gotti running this crew from his secret hide out? They can all bite me as far as I care. Damn I hate unions. So obsolete.

Laura Mandel, a representative for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” confirmed Wednesday that DeGeneres had scrapped the trip. When asked whether the cancellation was related to the strike, Mandel said: “We make changes all of the time. Our schedule is always fluid.”

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It has been a few days now since the Writers Guild of America has gone on strike. MAny shows have ceased production, and shows like 24 have been canceled this season altogether because they hadn’t completed the season prior to the strike.

Ellen has decided to continue with her show, writer, or not. She has continued doing her show with out doing a monologue unlike many other daily television hosts like Conan, Leno, and Letterman who have darked out in support of writers.

“I want to say I love my writers,” DeGeneres said on Tuesday’s show. “I love them. In honor of them today, I’m not going to do a monologue. I support them and hope that they get everything they’re asking for.” DeGeneres goes on to say that she’s continuing her show because “people have traveled across the country” to attend and be guests on her show, and she wants to “do everything I can to make your trip enjoyable and give you a show.”

This doesn’t sit well with many anyone really. Well…maybe the studio execs, and Ellen’s 3 fans. Not sure if I care at all about this Writer’s strike. I don’t watch most of TV’s crap anyways so it has no effect on me. Unions are past their usefulness in this day and time. They are more harm than good in almost every circumstance and they help idiots more than they help the people that really need them.

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