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Lance Corporal \"Hammer\" Schultz  wrote:
>
>Unions are an anachronism.  They have long since ceased to serve the
>purpose of preventing labor abuse.  They now exist to perpetuate
>themselves as institutions and nothing more.  Without continually
>bringing up "issues" over which to strike these institutions would be
>(rightly) regarded as irrelevant.

You're painting with a very broad brush. Some unions may indeed
be more concerned with themslves than their members. But in my 
mind, when a powerful set of companies tells certain employees 
that the employees won't get paid unless the project they're 
working on clear a profit, there's a very good reason to have 
a union fighting for them.

I realize that the studios just dropped that demand, but it's
the kind of thing the WGA has to keep beating down. And the
remaining proposals about, for example, residuals on new-media
distribution also demonstrate the need for strong representation
of the writers.


Patty
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