The View is forging on amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. While the women “support” everyone on the picket lines, Whoopi Goldberg explained why the long-running daytime talk show has not been put on pause — unlike many movies and scripted series.

At the start of this morning’s episode, Goldberg welcomed the audience with an explanation about why those at The View are still working following SAG-AFTRA’s strike — which began at the end of last week.

“Like the soap operas and game shows and news shows, we work under a different kind of contract which is called The Network Code, which means that we are allowed to continue on,” she said. “As we’re not actors at the table acting The View, it’s a different kind of context. So that’s why we’re still able to work.”

She added, “We want it to all work out for everybody because nobody wants to see folks on strike because it’s never good when you have to make a noise to say, ‘Hey, we’re here.’ But you do it as long as you need to do it, so we’re backing everybody up.”

The moderator reiterated that she and her fellow co-hosts support the actors as well as the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) — which has been on strike since early May 2023 — before she was loudly interrupted by Sara Haines‘ ringing phone.

“You gonna answer that?” Goldberg asked, to which Haines replied, “Oh, hell no. It’s my front door.”

The panel joked that it was likely Joy Behar calling in from her day off since she’s usually the one who forgets to silence her phone on live shows.

When the ladies settled back down and shifted into their first Hot Topics segment, Goldberg reminded the audience that she was reading from a self-written notecard as a result of the WGA strike — a daily mention ever since the union went on strike 11 weeks ago and the show lost its writers.

“By the way, that’s why I’m reading this. And why you’ll see me do this,” she said, maneuvering the position of her card. “Because of my handwriting, I’m never sure of what I’ve written.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.