Thank you for the link. It was good to read such humane and insightful writing about the strike on the day when Gov. Schwarzenegger stepped in to try and resolve things, stating publicly:

"The studio executives are not going to suffer, the union leaders are not going to suffer, the writers that are striking, they are not going to suffer. Those are all people that have money."

*shakes head* - it sounds to me like he's not negotiating a solution, he wants the writers to suck it up. Sure the strike is going to impact the wider economy of the region - but the whole reason that we have unions is so that the good of society isn't based on the oppression of those without any political power. Theoretically speaking. Big business fought like mad about being forced to stop orphans working in the mines, also.