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...lost them all on that second day that will live in infamy, when their armies of anonymous writers went on strike. Writers Guild of America (WGA), what have you done...
...streets of Los Angeles, the picket lines trail into coffee shops. In the high-rises of Manhattan, the lawyers file into boardrooms. And this is no minor squabble: The strike affects over half a million entertainment jobs in Southern California alone. If the writers last as long as they did in 1988—the full 22 weeks of a TV drama season—it could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion...
...writers must stand together no matter how different we are, because this is a war between labor and management, between teleprompter and teleprompted. So let’s be grateful that our chosen representatives are, unlike most writers, far too rich and stubborn to give up their strike out of poverty or despair. They have gagged America’s voice—and they have found their...
...period, neither could convert. After a slow start to the third period, junior Jenny Brine found the back of the net with just over five minutes to play to bring the score to 5-0. Vaillancourt and Cahow recorded their third assists of the night on the power-play strike. Harvard’s balanced offense and dominant defense were once again key to the team’s success. “We started from the drop of the puck and played a pretty complete game,” Cahow said. The Crimson outshot the Golden Knights...
...Labor no longer talks much about its founding principles. "The struggle of the working class against the excesses, injustices and inequalities of capitalism" doesn't strike much of a chord in a country where there are more self-employed workers than union members and more than 55% of adults own shares. Rudd gave the impression that under him, Labor would be as un-Labor-like as it could be without becoming the Liberal Party. The only revolution he was about to start was an educational one, and it didn't mean overthrowing the teacher class. It meant upgrading trades training...