Here's an oral history of the 2007 Writers Guild Strike. Well, actually, it's more like an oral summary of some aspects of it. A 100-day strike would require a very thick book to encompass all that happened and all that it meant.
People have a tendency to look at something like this and ask, "Was it worth it?" and then they weigh what was won versus what was lost…but then they don't include the ancillary losses and gains such as what the next deal would have been like if not for the strike? It's like when people ask me if my new knee is better than my old knee. To decide whether the replacement was a good idea, you have to take into account what my old knee would have been like if I was still reliant on it. I do not really view that as elective surgery.
In show business — hell, probably in all businesses — if you take a bad deal now, it leads to worse deals later. The 1988 Writers Guild strike, which was a lot longer and more painful than the 2007 one — occurred largely because we took a terrible deal in 1985 and the producers thought we'd take an even lousier offer in '88.