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The time we're in now isn't more hospitable to a work stoppage or a better deal. The only thing SAG's timing is more hospitable to is home foreclosure.
The appointment of a mediator will not help one teeny weenie little bit. The actors want "more money" and the production companies are unwilling to give it to them. Simple isn't it?
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Ono: I really wanted to [re-release the track, Give Peace a Chance], it was my statement because right now the world is in turmoil and we really need to talk about world peace.
It's the current common wisdom throughout SAG negotiations that the Writers Strike Destroyed Network Television. Hey, honestly, it sounds reasonable. As long as you don't think too hard. Or at all.
Any questions on the strike should now be all laid to rest, with all fingers properly pointed at the actual cause and corporate perpetrators.
The WGA has sent out a castigating letter to its members that lists names of writers who crossed the picket lines during the tense hundred-day strike that ended in February.
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Admiration and thanks are plentiful. But I still reserve my awe for the strike captains.
It's not surprising -- as has become clear in the oceanic email volume of these post-strike days -- that many writers turn out to have written scripts on spec over the past few months.
After working steadily as a TV writer for many years, I made a big mistake: I allowed some of my hair to turn gray. In the eyes of those at the studios, I was suddenly too old to be funny.
Most Los Angeles writers who haven't yet joined the WGA and continue to peck away at careers in writing for publication had their moment in the sun during the Writer's strike.
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I suppose Jay will take this bit of free advertising for him being an independent thinker graciously.
Can someone explain to me just what kind of actual stick the union is carrying here.
If they censure, suspend or expel Leno from the union, what does that do to his show? Will all his union writers have to quit?
The same thing happened to my father and my uncle in the 50's, when the ILGWU was big in NYC garment manufacturing (now outsourced to China). The boss, who was paying double the union wage, wouldn't cooperate. So the union told my dad and uncle they had to strike. Instead, they quit the union, and worked at more than union salary for the rest of their working lives.
Unions are a good idea - in theory. But read the book SYSTEMANTICS. It explains why all sorts of systems and organizations inevitably substitute for their stated goal the singular goal of self-perpetuation.
Not a chance they will go through with attacking Leno. If so, I lose 10 bucks and they lose the respect of actually talented people.
Ya see .. it's like this ... Jay Leno is management for the Tonight show, and also a writer for the Tonight show.
During the strike, he took off his Jay Leno the writer hat, and wore his Jay Leno the manager hat while coming up with material for his monologues.
So .... .
Meanwhile, back at the garage ...
Let's see if I get this straight:
Workers want to form a union to keep ownership from using strong-arm tactics, intimidation, and economic tactics to keep workers oppressed.
Then the unions use strong-arm tactics, intimidation, and economic tactics to keep their members in line.
Am I missing something here?
Yes, you are.
Unions: the people who brought us weekends.
Amen.
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