From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	At the saving of some face, Jay Leno's announced that he'll   
   be covering the salaries of non-writing production staff, at least   
   on a week-by-week basis, and he apparently hopes the strike will be   
   over shortly:   
   	http://www.variety.com/VR1117976808.html   
      
   	It's certainly good news for the production staff even if   
   there is the weird ambiguity about whether they'll be rehired when   
   someday in the future the strike ends and the show goes back into   
   production.  It's hard to see what NBC hopes to gain by not assuring   
   production staff that they'll be hired back at the end of the strike:   
   they are going to *need* a staff with this same experience, after all,   
   and while it might help them trim costs if they can replace people   
   with new hires, is that going to be worth the loss of goodwill?  Whose   
   strike is next on the schedule, by the way?   
      
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