tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065300631296012824.post6809495620666797793..comments2019-05-07T04:33:33.938-07:00Comments on I Am A Scab: Meet The ScabI Am A Scabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182341514884737514noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065300631296012824.post-40304145671299989152008-05-15T09:30:00.000-07:002008-05-15T09:30:00.000-07:00Yep, the world is black and white, on and off, yes...Yep, the world is black and white, on and off, yes and no.I Am A Scabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182341514884737514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065300631296012824.post-61997823658329643442008-05-14T23:39:00.000-07:002008-05-14T23:39:00.000-07:00no two ways about it.scabs are bad.no two ways about it.<BR/>scabs are bad.chrisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143292328627224598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065300631296012824.post-58634516206382838192008-05-14T23:01:00.000-07:002008-05-14T23:01:00.000-07:00That's messed up. I would have done the same thin...That's messed up. I would have done the same thing. Good luck with your witch hunt, bro.<BR/><BR/>JakeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065300631296012824.post-65892009266189845192008-05-11T23:27:00.000-07:002008-05-11T23:27:00.000-07:00Scab -- You obviously learned nothing while walkin...Scab -- You obviously learned nothing while walking the picket lines with the rest of us writer. You are in a union. You made the choice to join the union. Hollywood is a union town and you made the choice to do union work when you took the writing job. When you join a union, individual interest does not have priority over collective bargaining. You may be ignorant of this knowledge, but that does not excuse or justify your decision to break the union rules.<BR/><BR/>During a strike, management and labor try to force each side to agree by inflicting financial hardship on the other. The only leverage a union has against management is withholding labor.<BR/><BR/>You may say you didn't take a writing job from another writer. Or you may say you didn't get paid. That may be true and you are missing the point.<BR/><BR/>You gave management your labor. You could have not walked the picket lines. You could have told people that you disagreed with the strike and not had a problem But you gave them your labor.<BR/><BR/>Films were shut down because scripts weren't ready. Actors refused to do lines if WGA writers didn't write the lines. Studios were afraid to move ahead on projects because they were afraid the product would not be good enough if they were not re-written. All of this cost the studio more and more money. As each day went by, and the cost of production went up, the studios questioned how long they could continue to hold out because held up project cost more money without a completed product to release.<BR/><BR/>You film fitted into the same category. Obviously, they stopped things because the actor wanted to re-write lines. The producers didn't move forward with script while the actor is off writing lines. Filming slowed down and was costing money.<BR/><BR/>But then they called you and asked your opinion. <BR/><BR/>Now, this is where the union leverage kicks in. We withhold our labor because that's our power. But you talked about "My Chance, My Art, My Movie, My Script. It became about just you. Not what thousands of your peers were fighting for. Just you. Somehow you found choosing "my art" as the noble and moral thing to do.<BR/><BR/>Thousands of workers were protesting their work conditions by sacrificing their earnings and withholding their labor and you believed that the noble thing to do was to give management your labor.<BR/><BR/>Your morals were tested during the strike. You were posed with the question of sacrificing your individual creation for the greater good. Management came to you and asked you to do it. That's what management does during a strike--looks for labor that is weak enough to break from the strike. They convince the workers that the choice is about the individual and not the greater good.<BR/><BR/>And here was your chance in life, like a character in a movie. You can sacrifice your personal creation for the greater good. Like those before you who were asked to sacrifice when others were protesting unfair labor practices, unfair voting practices, unfair educational policies, unfair gender policies, unfair racial policies, unfair international and environmental policies. <BR/><BR/>What sacrifice did you make when it was your moment of truth? You chose you. You chose not to sacrifice. You tried to convince yourself that carrying a picket sign was the protest instead of the withholding of labor. Holding the picket sign was only to tell the public we were withholding our labor. <BR/><BR/>It would be hypocritical to tell the public and our fellow workers we are withholding our labor and then secretly give our labor to management. <BR/><BR/>If you thought giving your labor to management for the "art" was a noble thing, then you should have done it in public. You should have gone to the WGA and told them, I'm giving my labor to management. That is legal during a strike. You can cross a picket line a work during a strike. The labor laws allow you to do that. That is what financial core is. But those same labor laws allow union to punish those give their labor without informing the union they are going financial core.<BR/><BR/>The sad thing is, you have learned nothing from this. You claim: <BR/><BR/>"And if I had the same choice to make again, I would do it. Because if that’s my only shot at making a movie that I’m proud of, I’m going out protecting it."<BR/><BR/>This is your only chance because you made it your only chance. The sadder thing about this is, you gave your labor to management during the strike and they didn't even have to pay you extra for it. <BR/><BR/>If this is your argument when you go in for the trial, you might as well pack up and leave town now, because you sound like a selfish and clueless scab.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com