HP & DH Movie
Carol
justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 19 16:39:10 UTC 2008
Sandy:
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> It is the only tool they have.
Carol responds:
Then maybe Hollywood needs to be restructured, and real jobs that
don't require strikes to get fair compensation ought to be made
available to writers. If a writer works for a magazine, not freelance
but as an employee, he doesn't have to strike, does he? And, as I
said, teachers can belong to a professional organization or a union.
Writers, as professionals, ought to have the same choice. Strikes
began as a tool for manual laborers, not white-collar workers. And Big
Labor can be as corrupt as Big Business.
I'd appreciate not having my perspective belittled with "Why is that
so hard for you to understand?"
Carol, whose distaste for strikes has not abated one whit
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