Comments on: Eight Strikes that Turned Ugly (or Inspired Keanu Reeves Movies)

By: jroon

jroon — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:52:44 +0000

Never fear, Brooklyn in here!

Newsies is quite honestly amazing. To anyone interested- there was a rally in New Yawk City for the 15th anniversary of the movie. It was awesome.

By: JPark

JPark — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:10:56 +0000

The mentality of “striking seemed like a legal version hijacking a company anyway) is so brainwashed I can’t get my head around it. If you don’t like the conditions, don’t work there??

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:37:06 +0000

The mentality of “always support a union & a strike” is so brainwashed I can’t get my head around it.

Besides, striking always seemed like a legal version of hijacking a company anyway. If you don’t like the conditions, don’t work there. This is 2007, not 1899.

By: bob a

bob a — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:59:36 +0000

what about the general motors striks in flint michigan.

By: Skeleton

Skeleton — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:10:04 +0000

This year, ACTRA, the film, TV & radio actors union in Canada went on strike against the producer’s association for the first time in their 63 year history. They walked out of negotiations over the same issues as the WGA– digital media and internet rights.

ACTRA devised a special collective agreement that individual producers could sign to keep their in-production projects rolling. In that side-agreement was a slight wage increase.

A whole lot of producers broke solidarity with their organization and signed.

So, for the first time in Canadian labour history, a union was on strike but its members kept working and for a bump in pay!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:57:11 +0000

Unions have played an important part in American history. Like any human process, sometimes things can get out of balance, either way. The sum of it is we are better off now because of them.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:26:07 +0000

Never feeuh, Brooklyn is here!

*Newsies* is one of the best movies ever!

By: Mary Kroll

Mary Kroll — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:26:36 +0000

Was the WV coal miner strike -the one wherein the coal companies commissioned a private air fleet to bomb the protestors- left off the list because they weren’t a card-carrying union yet?

By: Q1Go

Q1Go — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:12:12 +0000

Also on strike right now is Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which is the NYC Stagehands union. In 121 years, this is the first time they’ve gone on Strike in protest of the Broadway producers who are attempting to mess with their contract (including items that promote workplace safety). It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

By: amywithlemon

amywithlemon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:34:41 +0000

KELLY:

check out snopes -dot- com for disney stuff. they have a whole heading for weird disney ‘rumors’. fun reading for when you’re bored.

i’m also surprised you didn’t mention the post strike that just occurred in the UK. that was pretty crazy.

as for unions… i don’t have so much an opinion, other than that i never liked the idea of selling yourself to a group that can pull ‘_____ or else’ tactics. my grandfather went on strike once, and when some of the men in the union disagreed about what they wanted… it got so ugly.

i’d be curious from a statistical POV to see how often strikers receive what they want and to what percentage they received it (meaning, 80% of the time… etc.).