Lights! Camera! Collective Action!
Writing for In These Times, David Moberg says, "With its celebrity patina, highly literate and occasionally well-paid strikers, high-tech controversies, and mobilization of support via the Internet, the strike by 10,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (both East and West) is unusual - and not only because strikes themselves are rare these days. But for all its distinctiveness, the strike revolves around issues familiar to most American workers: management's use of new technology to disempower and underpay workers; executives' avoidance of unions through legal finagling; corporations' increasing concentration of power; a "winner-take-all" system of compensation that is grossly unequal; and corporate strategies that try to divide workers on minor issues to win on the bigger ones."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121207LB.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Moberg
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121207LB.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Moberg
rudkla - 13. Dez, 11:41
