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The End Result of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strikes, Against the AMPTP, Should Be SHARED GOVERNANCE

As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger’s Father was a Union Organizer, a Trotskyite. As Readers of this Blog know; there is a strike in the Entertainment Industry, writers have been on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, since May 2, 2023. The Alliance represents studios, film companies, television producers and streamers that produce entertainment. Actors have been on strike since July 14, 2023. As this Blog is being written, economists are estimating the strikes will cost the American economy, in excess of 5 Billion Dollars. As this Blog is being written, Drew Barrymore has turned scab. The strike has been rancorous; with the strikers thinking they are Red Neck West Virginia miners on the way to the Battle of Blair Mountain; and the Alliance    chiefs thinking they are the mine owners, ordering the slaughter of miners during the Colorado Coalfield War, the Ludlow Massacre. The Alliance has openly wished that the actors and writers woul...