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“It looks like — the strike is going to happen.”

This is from an email BTL was sent today, by a production coordinator we know:

I got emails from both my union and my agent this morning that it looks like - the strike is going to happen. Although, it still has to be put to a vote - the Producers are giving an ultimatum to [...]

A trenchant article from the UK Independent’s Guy Adams, writing out of Hollywood, among which the most trenchant of all lines is this: “To have one trade union paralyse Hollywood was strange; two doing it in quick succession feels like carelessness.”
You bet. Hey, Hollywood, why not? As the world burns, economies crumble, and the fuel [...]

Union Roundup: The “culpa” question

From the impending print issue of Below the Line:
It may have been awhile since we’ve shared a drink – or a thought – in this particular corner of BTL, but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening.
Or more interestingly, things have been happening, but there’s a lot of arguing over what those things mean. Everything, [...]

  
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