Working Life

    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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Jack London wrote a famous essay about scabs–those would be the low-lifes who break a strike. Which is what I thought about when I found out yesterday that two people linked closely to the labor movement had crossed the pickets lines of the Writers Guild of America. Follow this story and you will be, hopefully, […]

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Jack London wrote a famous essay about scabs–those would be the low-lifes who break a strike. Which is what I thought about when I found out yesterday that two people linked closely to the labor movement had crossed the pickets lines of the Writers Guild of America. Follow this story and you will be, hopefully, […]

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    You’ve probably read already that a deal was struck between David Letterman and the Writers Guild of America so Letterman’s writers will be back at work on Wednesday. Letterman was able to cut a deal because he owns his production company and the rights to the show. The Writers Guild explains the deal in […]

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    You’ve probably read already that a deal was struck between David Letterman and the Writers Guild of America so Letterman’s writers will be back at work on Wednesday. Letterman was able to cut a deal because he owns his production company and the rights to the show. The Writers Guild explains the deal in […]

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    This was amusing–even reading it from Bali–so I thought I’d post it. I’m going to do a long take on labor and climate change–it just may be after I get back this weekend (it’s hard to get time to do thinking and writing here). So, in the meantime…a Zagat-style take on the studios written […]

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    This was amusing–even reading it from Bali–so I thought I’d post it. I’m going to do a long take on labor and climate change–it just may be after I get back this weekend (it’s hard to get time to do thinking and writing here). So, in the meantime…a Zagat-style take on the studios written […]

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