'Trash'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Wow. That's pretty uncool.
Nah. It's lightweight. Not too terribly long ago, you'd be left bleeding behind a 7-11 for working during a strike. Or at least kicked out of the union.
I know of relatively recent cases where people got their cars worked over with baseball bats for crossing a picket line.
Ah, the memories ...
Not too terribly long ago, you'd be left bleeding behind a 7-11 for working during a strike. Or at least kicked out of the union.
They resigned from the union, as is legally allowed. And, from the wording of the letter, it seems not all of them worked during the strike.
They resigned from the union, as is legally allowed. And, from the wording of the letter, it seems not all of them worked during the strike.
This is what is pinging me as uncool.
They're not being blacklisted for explicitly working during the strike. They are being blacklisted for refusing to participate.
I'm pretty pro-union, but this bothers me. Suffice to say violence toward persons or property for strikebreaking is also unacceptable to me.
It seems the blacklist is alive and well.
John Ridley's the only name on that this I recognize, and I'd expect he's proud to be on that list. I don't think he's done any TV recently, anyway. He's still got novels, comic books, and NPR.
Is this normally public information, just made more visible, or is it normally confidential? For union action to work, it seems harsh but reasonable to let people know about people who broke the strike. I don't know enough about the way this system works to know if financial core=broke the strike or not.
eta: It seems more stand up and be counted than blacklist, to me. I mean, aren't blacklists usually a little more covert? And wouldn't any potential employer learn this in the hiring process anyway? Or maybe I'm being hopelessly naive.
My understanding is that, until now, the Guild never commented on which members had resigned from the union.
I have no issues with anyone as long as they didn't work as a writer during the strike. If they did cross the lines, even metaphorically, I would have thought that they would expect repercussions like this. If they didn't, this does seem unfair.
It seems the blacklist is alive and well. Only this time, we've written it ourselves.
Wow. Or maybe someone just has a thorn in his paw about day time soap writers which accounts for most of the list. Maybe it is fair, it just seems weird that all but about four names on that are/were soap writers. Two names left their shows during the strike, but because they went fi core, are they in the same group? The list is probably fair in that it is factual, but should this be the short list of people who are pelted with vegetables? IDK
It seems more stand up and be counted than blacklist, to me. I mean, aren't blacklists usually a little more covert? And wouldn't any potential employer learn this in the hiring process anyway? Or maybe I'm being hopelessly naive.
I think of a blacklist as something negative that is done to someone else for (justice, vengence, retribution) whatever, while stand up and be counted is usually voluntary and within control of the person whose name is being published. The whole thing is strange so I don't know if there is a right and wrong.
I see your point, Austin. Huh.