November 15, 2010 By By Pamela Chelin & Daniel Frankel1 year ago
Strikers loudly sing "Happy Birthday" to passers-by in effort to disrupt production, which has resumed with scabs; trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper refuse to cross
Richard Epstein: "If people know what they're doing nothing outperforms the competitive market. The way in which workers are protected is to get away from one job and take another."
What’s left of the looming strike by the Screen Actors Guild? Precious little after a dramatic day in which a majority of members of the board demanded, finally, the exit of their embattled executive director, Doug Allen.
SAG's national executive director Doug Allen sent a message to his board members late Wednesday proposing that the strike authorization vote be put on hold.
After a marathon 30-hour national board meeting ended Tuesday, SAG's chief negotiator Doug Allen managed to hold onto his job, parrying attempts by guild moderates to dismiss him.
SAG's national board moved closer to ousting national executive director Doug Allen as the guild's lead negotiator during an emergency meeting Monday afternoon.
With an important emergency board meeting looming next week, the Screen Actors Guild has quietly delayed bargaining over its basic cable contract, which expired three weeks ago.
