Re: Strike

Hank Gillette wrote:
> In article 
> <kurtullman-A27546.08094806112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>> Umm, no.  The most appropriate analogy is that the writers, actors and
>>> directors all get royalties for the same reasons that musicians and
>>> novelists and other entertainment creators do -- to give them
>>> incentives to create more work by paying them bonuses.
>>>
>>     The autoworker analogy would only work if the automakers got a cut 
>> of the sale price of used cars. Since the Studios get multiple streams 
>> of revenue, the writers and other talent guilds want their part of the 
>> downstream money.

	I am retired auto worker. I took less per hour to have good health care 
and good retirement benefits. Management takes more per year with higher 
salary and stock benefits.
	Stars take more upfront. Writers take more in residuals. Is is all a 
matter of bargaining and choice.
           Tee Jay


ps  You go Guild!