Discrepancy

Rushfield at the Ankler calls out an interesting discrepancy. The Hollywood strike is stopping a huge part of the US economy. The UAW strike is less consequential as measured by workers or dollars. (Only a few selected factories of the Big Three are struck. US factories owned by foreign companies like Toyota or BMW are not struck.)

The D administration and media have worked hard to break up strikes in the auto and railroad industries. All the NLRB negotiating machinery is active. The same D admin and media are paying very little attention to Hollywood. NLRB sent one negotiator, who stood around for a day or so and then returned to DC.

I won’t try to grasp the reasons for this discrepancy, but the tech tyrants who run most of Hollywood might want to consider the effectiveness of their lobbying. All of their contributions are D, and it’s not buying them much in terms of regulatory action.

The unions have the same imbalance, and should rethink in the same way. All entertainers spent the last few years shouting FUCK TRUMP over and over and over instead of doing their goddamn jobs. Now their beloved D team is betraying them.

It’s highly likely that the tech tyrants WANT the strike. They’ve been looking for a reason to get out of the declining entertainment biz, and the strike gives them the justification. The strike smells like part of an LBO.

LBO reasoning doesn’t apply to the union leaders, who (presumably) don’t WANT to get out of show biz.