The Business: There's Another Hellmouth Strike

I did not see this coming.

BREAKING: IATSE Members in TV and Film Production Voted to Authorize the first nationwide industry strike in our 128-year history.

98.68% voted yes, and voter turnout among eligible members was nearly 90% #IASolidarity #IATSEVoted pic.twitter.com/F4wx8cPubi

— IATSE // #VoteYES (@IATSE) October 4, 2021

My response:

The Hellmouth stops making dogshit for a while. It's only been 15 years or so since the last strike--the Writer's Strike--and that one didn't actually stop anything, just slow it down.

This one? Those workers are the people that actually do the grunt work required to make productions happen at all. Their strike may actually stop productions from happening, but not for long and not outside the United States.

I fully expect productions to move beyond union territory immediately (such to as Eastern Europe) and I expect the Hellmouth to use their influence to get their pals in government to wield state power against the plebs.

We'll see how this goes down, but the general Left-On-Left advice applies.

Get the popcorn. This should be good.