WGA Lead Neogotiator May Be Out Of His League

Wall Street Journal:

For the past month, striking screenwriters have placed their faith in veteran union organizer David Young, who cut his teeth rallying garment workers, carpenters and other blue-collar trades. But as the strike enters a crucial phase, Mr. Young faces a test of his core strategy: applying traditional labor tactics to a Hollywood creative guild whose members range from millionaires to part-time waiters.

Thus far, Mr. Young has taken a hard line against the studios in his role as lead negotiator for 12,000 striking members of the Writers Guild of America. And he has surprised the entertainment industry by organizing a unified, highly visible and noisy strike by the writers -- a group that has in the past often behaved like a dispassionate collection of white-collar professionals, not a cohesive, militant union.

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Comments

[petegrif]

I see that the Wall Street Journal's original title for the article - Guild's Blue-Collar Guy Gets a Starring Role - has been changed to WGA Lead Negotiator may be out of his League. Fascinating.

The article itself, from a Murdoch owned paper, is a blatant attempt to discredit Young. The amusing thing about it is that the hacks who wrote it even have the gall to include the following: "... the studio executives sitting across the table are quietly sowing the notion that he is not up to the task." Hysterical! They take one side's spin and report it as news! I love it.

[petegrif]

more industry spin.
But we will see, won't we?