Strike Season

All of us here at Icecano are, of course, in full support of the Writer’s Guild strike, and now it’s starting to look like there’s a good chance the Actors are going join them.  Good!  Shut the whole industry down until you all get what you deserve.

From the outside, this strike certainly seems to have an existential,  “final duel on the lava planet” vibe to it that the last writer’s strike didn’t.

As a member of an industry that is not organized—and really needs to be—I’m watching this situation with a mixture of admiration and envy.  It’s a joy to see what mature labor power looks like.  We could all have this, if we wanted!

Here’s hoping the WGA—and the rest of “hollywood”— manages to hold out for as long as they need to get everything they deserve, keep the financialization gig-economy wolves out, and perserve their art form as a viable career.

And maybe their success will help convince the rest of us to organize our industries too.