Posted on Sep 20, 2023
Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue
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The image is iconic: Sally Field standing atop a work table in a noisy textile factory in Martin Ritt's 1979 workplace drama Norma Rae.
Her Norma Rae Wilson's just been fired for creating a disturbance at the factory, the sheriff's coming to haul her off to jail, and she's holding up a piece of cardboard on which she's scrawled just one word: "UNION."
Every eye in the factory is on her as, one by one, her coworkers, many of whom she's angered and alienated with her activism, shut down their machines in support.
For a long moment, the silence is deafening — a cinematic portrait of worker solidarity that 1970s audiences found moving at least partly because it was so rare.
The image is iconic: Sally Field standing atop a work table in a noisy textile factory in Martin Ritt's 1979 workplace drama Norma Rae.
Her Norma Rae Wilson's just been fired for creating a disturbance at the factory, the sheriff's coming to haul her off to jail, and she's holding up a piece of cardboard on which she's scrawled just one word: "UNION."
Every eye in the factory is on her as, one by one, her coworkers, many of whom she's angered and alienated with her activism, shut down their machines in support.
For a long moment, the silence is deafening — a cinematic portrait of worker solidarity that 1970s audiences found moving at least partly because it was so rare.
Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue
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Got no issues with unions and strikes, but to vote for a guy whose stated policies will put you out of work is an incredulous starting negotiating point
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LTC Eugene Chu
Issue is that Hollywood, not White House, is proposing policies that put acting roles and writers out of work. The strikes are partly over giving likeness to AI that will replicate content at expense of humans.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-artificial-intelligence-is-a-central-dispute-in-the-hollywood-strikes
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-artificial-intelligence-is-a-central-dispute-in-the-hollywood-strikes
Why artificial intelligence is a central dispute in the Hollywood strikes
This Labor Day weekend, Hollywood production remains shut down by writers and actors on strike. At the heart of negotiations is figuring out the role of artificial intelligence in the motion picture industry. Jules Roscoe, a reporter at VICE Motherboard, joins Ali Rogin to discuss the collision of labor and technology.
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CSM Chuck Stafford
LTC Eugene Chu - You are correct, I had just finished reading an article on the UAW strike and it was still on my mind -- WRT Hollywood, the longer the strike goes, the more it shows the world just how little value the product is; perhaps they should learn how to code...
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