Monday, November 05, 2007
STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
They’ve downed tools in Hollywood:
Hollywood’s film and television writers went on strike early this morning after last-ditch efforts to negotiate a deal with the major studios failed Sunday.
Despite the aid of a federal mediator and back-channel talks between top writers and studio executives, the sides were ultimately too far apart to bridge the massive divide between them and avert the first writers strike in nearly two decades ...
“Once it starts, it’s going to get ugly,” said one of the guild’s strike captains Sunday.
Wait a second ... the guild has got every film and television writer in Hollywood available to come up with a punchy line, and that’s the best they can do? Who’s running this show?
Chief negotiator David Young, a former organizer of garment workers, carpenters and construction workers, has spent months organizing and mobilizing his members to prepare them for a showdown.
Good luck, Chief Negotiator. The job starts with keeping them out of bars.