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What next? It's getting to the point where the proverbial monkeywrench in the engine is poised to be thrown. What might the wrench take the form of?
If there isn't enough money for teachers, then why is there enough money for holiday highways and mismanaged financial institutions?
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@RB:
No, and the questions were exclusively targeted at Whipp, whose refusal to speak has become completely fucking unacceptable, given his central role in what's happened.
So what's behind Whipp's wall of silence? Maybe he knows he's backed into a corner and trying to defend the indefensible?
Philosophical thought of the day: does the MEAA regard the Techos as a yellow union or a red union?
Here's a pcture of the New Zealand Police Force at work.
Roflnui.
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Noone's disputing that right in the abstract, but the context is rather important. Ill-considered threats of industrial action that end up driving an employer out of the country don't benefit anyone.
And some industry sectors are in far bigger need of unionisation than others. Also, ports, classrooms and copper wires are far harder to pack up and move than film projects.
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According to the RadioNZ link, Equity/MEAA sounds like it's going Peoples Front of Judea.
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But here's one thing I've noticed: people somehow getting the idea that Lucy Lawless is also involved in the Equity action (and cursing her name).
Did the mining protests - which involved both Robyn Malcolm and Lucy Lawless - have something to do with it? Possibly guilt by association, I suspect.
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What am I missing about The Hobbit dispute? Every way I look at it, there seems to be a reasonable deal on the table for actors, has been for weeks, and the only thing stopping it getting made here is a global power struggle between international studios and the Anglo-Saxon world's actors' unions.
The New Zealand film industry is a bit player in this, yet it could be the casualty.
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Many of them, yes.
Theoretically it'd be the EPMU or NZWG.
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Are they unionised?
If they are, then the Peoples' Front of Judea is starting to cut a bit close to home.
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How much more worse could it get?
Forgive the strong analogism, but are unionists in NZ really going to become the new paedophiles in the court of public opinion? Or is the whole thing merely blown out of proportion? Probably only the warring parties know. It'd be a sad day for NZ if unionists have to be escorted by armed heavies when they go out.
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If worst comes to worst, there'll be even more ammunition for those who want to necromance the infamous Employment Contracts Act.
And even more unfortunately, unionists could well be viewed in the same light as kiddy-porn smugglers, with the matching egg-stained houses and broken noses to boot. Something I hope doesn't come to pass.
But in any case, the MEAA have pushed their luck at best.