Apparently a Teamster delivering milk refused to cross the picket line at Sony and made folks inside come out and get the milk.

What confounds me, though, is when the supermarkets had a strike, they still had goods delivered so did the Teamsters ignore their picket lines?

Steve Carell informed NBC he is unable to report to work because he is suffering from “enlarged balls.”

This is brilliant. Whedonesque has something on a possibly planned strike with the Mutant Enemy people - is that the thing Tim made reference to above, or is that something different? I think that would get an audience outside of fandom.

What confounds me, though, is when the supermarkets had a strike, they still had goods delivered so did the Teamsters ignore their picket lines?

From what I remember, Teamsters did not cross the supermarket workers' picket lines, but they did deliver food/goods to the parking lots. Management and/or scabs had to unload the trucks. Kind of like that milk incident.

I think that would get an audience outside of fandom.

How? Outside fandom and the industry, who else has ever heard of Mutant Enemy?

I'd imagine they could get a press person or two to cover it. It's not the world, but it's probably better than, say, that NYT article Joss was talking about the other day. Which is a start.

I wish I could help in some way. I feel an odd solidarity. I think that's why the NYT hit piece was so irritating to me.

Maybe the writer was just pissy that all his content is online and he's getting paid the same.

I think. Maybe someone should ask.

I was with some people tonight who just "didn't get" the strike. They kept saying "they've been paid once, why do they care". When I pointed out that everybody else gets paid for every time the medium is broadcast, they were very confused.

...and now I am educated. Very cool stuff indeed. I just wish that there was something I could do from here.

I think that posted youtube link says it about as well as can be.

Why aren't the writers asking for more?