Its about time Hollywood to put their Mao hats and Che shirts where their mouth is, and get down to the nitty-gritty of fighting for everyman issues such as DVD residuals and a larger slice of the internet pie.
Silly rabbits health care and safe working environments are for kids. Unless you're a coal-miner or a twelve year old doing double shifts at the linen factory, you really don't have all that much to be outraged by to force you to strike.
Correct me if I'm wrong but revenue sharing is a perk, not a Constitutional right and only bequeathed upon the employee by the employer at its discretion.
That's kind of the whole point of the employee/employer relationship. They hire you the employee and pay you a salary to make a product that they the employer then in turn attempt to sell for profit.
If at any point the employee is unhappy with this arrangement, then this being America, are more than free to absorb the start-up costs and overhead to turn the tables and become the employer to greater directly participate in the profits as opposed to being a salaried employee.
But I got to tell ya, as someone that has been privy to contract negotiations involving such trivial issues such as cost of living wage increases, safety equipment, prescription drug plans and family dental co-pays and who also had to physically fight his way out of meetings when voting against striking I gotta say....
Aren't liberals just so darned cute with their socialist causes, I mean come on, how very cute of Hollywood to embrace the struggles of the working man as they eat donuts provided by Jay Leno and cash checks from work they did three years ago.
Good gig if you can get it says me.
I would threaten to counter strike if it wasn't for the fact that Ive watched a total of one network show in the past ten years, but my concern for my countryman is sincere.
How will they ever cope....
Oh no not the late night shows, anything but the late night shows. How in gods name will America survive without their daily dose of Britney jokes and self-fellating celebrity starfucks.
But I am curious about the food vendors, the lighting crew, the grips, the gaffs and the best boys etc?
As far as I know they don't get any residual checks nor do they participate in profit sharing for the product they eqully help to create and who its also worth noting will not be receiving any stipends or paychecks during this strike.
Lex Luther had it right, send the whole damn state of California into the Pacific, or better yet put the monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare theory to test.
The revolution will be televised (in reruns) but I for one wont be watching.
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Miss C's Black co-workers love soap operas. Another co-worker, a NY Jew whose husband had a sex change to become a woman, has a daughter who went to Harvard. The daughter writes for a famous soap. The mother of the writer and the writer herself are very dismissive of what the soap writer does. I mentioned to the mother that my Black co-workers might enjoy meeting the writer of their soaps, should she come to visit her mother. The mother got a sneery face on that said that she was embarassed by the daughter's soap gig.
Fuck the writers, they can kiss my ass. They are just whores. I hate TV anyway.
i have to admit, i experienced a little 'cognitive dissonance' when i saw tina fey on the picket line. she's got to be a millionaire several times over by now ...
If 'cognitive dissonance' is anything like an erection, then yeah me too.
Tina is pretty hot, I must admit.
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