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Anyone hearing about this possibility? Curious how much this is doing in terms of making waves and getting coverage. IATSE has never actually gone on strike before, which I found kinda surprising.

The main @IATSE account tweeted this morning, “When a collection of mega-corporations tries to claim they cannot provide all film and tv workers with basic human necessities like time to sleep, meal breaks, and living wages:” and then an animated gif of some Cartoon Network thing of a dude with waving arms saying UNACCEPTABLE.

I dunno about the living wages part, but, the time to sleep shit is for sure real, as five and six day and seven day weeks of 12+ hour days gets kinda life-fucking after a while. And if they’re seriously trying to get rid of meal penalty, so they can make people work without breaking to eat every 6 hours, that’s really crossing a line.

Related: Never give Christopher Nolan a fucking penny.

Good luck to the strikers.

Living in Athens means being right up against Atlanta. Tons of musicians have left Athens and its minimum wage scut work economy and jumped into craft services, carpentry, set dressing, and painting jobs in the film industry. They went from having to scramble to pull together 30 hours of work a week (at $8hr) to working 12-14 hour days at decent, livable wages. However, six days a week at any wage leaves precious little time for music.

And that's how the Athens Music Scene approaches obsolescence. However, that's Athens' business and nobody else's.

I fully support this strike. The problem with any collective action in the South is, of course, all the RUGGED INDIVIDUALISTS who are already bucking against the Union insisting they should be vaccinated. I hope they get enough commitment to make it hurt and to get paid.

In the meantime, I'm also working on a partnership to create some low-cost musician-centric housing here in ATH.

More power to them, they should do it and show up and show strength. On the other side: I'm sure people like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are rubbing one out at the thought of those 14-16 hour workdays...for others, of course.

Got a lot of friends out here who are in IATSE or work with members. Excited to support the strike.

My brother was an IATSE member in Canada for years before becoming a firefighter. All power to them. Interesting to see which actors are using their platforms to support IATSE.