Also, Jackson West's WGA interview with member Ezra Sacks: http://newteevee.com/2007/10/21/qa-ezra-sacks-on-writers-guild-strike/
Last question: =============================== NewTeeVee: What about the resistance to organized labor by technology entrepreneurs and independent productions? Sacks: Nobody could be more resistant to organization than Henry Ford was, and they got organized. It might have been ruthless, it might have been bloody, it might have taken twenty years, but a big group of people are not going to get ripped off and left unprotected. Now, maybe times are changing, I don't know. It depends on how satisfied people are who are working in new media. If they're happy working in that situation, I don't necessarily know if just because the guild wants to bring them in, they're going to bring them in. =============================== The times, they area a-changin' --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's Jackson West's NewTeeVee article about the strike: > > <http://newteevee.com/2007/10/19/wga-rank-and-file-authorize-strike/> > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jan McLaughlin" > <jannie.jan@> wrote: > > > > < > > > http://news.google.com/news?q=wga+strike&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn > > > > > > > The Google-collected WGA strike news, FYI. > > > > Jan > > > > On 10/20/07, Jan McLaughlin <jannie.jan@> wrote: > > > > > > Way to go, Casey. > > > > > > Of course this medium will be unionized. > > > > > > Eventually. > > > > > > Is this a 'problem' for indie talent and technician? Or a blessing? > > > > > > Health insurance, retirement benefits, fiscal protections from > abuse, etc? > > > > > > > > > There either will or will not come a time when the things you > produce are > > > popular enough to sustain real livings for lots and lots of > people. When > > > that entertainment tipping point happens, why not provide yourself > and the > > > people you work with living wages and benefits? > > > > > > Serious talent wishing to cross over to MSM will be folded into > unions; > > > those who don't want to play in the MSM sandbox will stand > outside, not > > > looking in, but looking out to recruit new, hungry talent to feed > the hungry > > > long tail of entertainment. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > On 10/20/07, Irina <irinaski@> wrote: > > > > > > > > very nice > > > > i'm really intrigued by the strike in LA > > > > it seems like we online can never be touched by something like that > > > > but i hear i am totally wrong > > > > > > > > On 10/16/07, Steve Watkins < steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I could not miss the following article as it is currently given > > > > > prominence on the Guardian main page: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/16/digitalvideo > > > > > > > > > > Touches on issues such as 'the unions are coming' which is > certainly > > > > > something I expect to cause a few nightmares for some in the > future. > > > > > Probably wont affect people who dont use any outside talent in > their > > > > > videos so much for now, but in the longterm the existing > > > > > 'professional' entertainment industry is certainly going to > want to > > > > > get in on the act. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://geekentertainment.tv > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Individual Email | Traditional > > > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > The Faux Press - better than real > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest > > > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > > http://wburg.tv > > > aim=janofsound > > > air=862.571.5334 > > > skype=janmclaughlin > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The Faux Press - better than real > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/WburgtvFallFilmFest - Fall Film Fest > > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > http://wburg.tv > > aim=janofsound > > air=862.571.5334 > > skype=janmclaughlin > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
