HP & DH Movie

[Tonks]

> The writers' strike, however, is going on and on, with no end in
> sight, regardless of how many people, including the writers
> themselves, are suffering as a result.
> 
> Enough is enough. It's time, IMO, to negotiate.
> 
> Carol, who can live with reruns on television and delayed movie
> production but wonders how the people more directly affected by the
> strike feel about it

Tonks:

Well Carol, usually you and I are on the same side, but here I have 
to take the side of the Unions. I use to be a Union Stewart in a 
professional union that was a non-striking union. I can never take 
the side of management, even when I was in management. I have seen 
too much. Politics is dirty where ever it is. And no one ever wins a 
war. I learned this the hard way. Even when you win, it is a shallow 
victory given the cost. (Pausing now to shed a tear in memory.)

I am sure that the people who are out of work and not on strike are 
getting unemployment which will help with their living expenses. And 
the strikers should be able to get some financial help from the 
union if they really need it.

And if you and others like you want to see an end to the strike so 
that you can watch your favorite TV shows, etc. write to the 
networks and studios. They will listen to the people. It is up to 
management to settle this. And we, the people, need to support the 
American worker by putting pressure not on the union, but on 
management.

Tonks_op