Posts by giovanni tiso
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I look forward to seeing intelligent counter-spin, beyond the tired 'evil capitalist conspiracy' bollocks that seems to be the only one put forward so far
I don't. This thing can't be counter-spun. The CTU needed to come in, fix it and talk as little as possible, rather than making things worse with all manner of contradictory revisionist statements. Let Fairness at Work and the secondary teacher union campaign be the things that speak for the union movement and remove the bloody distraction of the one bungled campaign.
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OTOH, I saw a Young Nats branch sending out invites on Facebook, and Kiwiblog was carrying ads for it ...
Shows quite nicely that it doesn't matter a jot what the marchers were marching for. It will always be portraied and perceived as an anti-union march. Doesn't pay to be disingenuous about it.
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Being involved in negotiations is one thing. Clearing the Prime Minister's schedule when a CEO visits the country, another. Also in terms of the symbolism.
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I'm not sure what it says about our sovereignty, that's all. Surely Key is not meeting with them in his capacity of Ministry of Tourism?!
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It's as much a show of compliance and subservience to Warner Bros as anything else, isn't it? In the "hope" that the government will give them whatever they ask for.
Still find it extraordinary that our Prime Minister is meeting with the head of a studio, but c'est this particular guerre I guess.
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Which is no more ridiculous than the apparently global conspiracy where a US film studio and the National Party have been working together to make AE do a bunch of dumb stuff to advance both their agendas.
No, sorry, much as that is very dumb, "I would not have supported Len Brown if I had known about the blacklisting of the Hobbit" is actually dumber. Amazing, I know.
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I don't believe the CTU were involved in the initial MEAA/Equity action in any way shape or form.
No, it was all part of a strategy of unrest by the Left, you silly.
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And that from someone who's husband makes in NZ soft-core porn for the US trailer trash market.
The tenor of this conversation isn't always right up there, is it?
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ooh, I just noticed we've passed the Veitch thread. What was the final comment count on the Copyright Thread of Doom, Russ?
Only fifty-one more pages to go.
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I consider it ironic, that the people on here, especially Mr Brown, who started out enjoying the benefits of union representation in the journalism sector want to pull up the ladder and deprive future generations of the job security and generous pay they enjoyed.
Whoa, slow down a bit eh? First of all, you want to be a full time employee, fine, good on you. How does an actor go about that? Should Peter Jackson be mandated to make sequels of the Hobbit for as long as he lives? In which case, can I kill myself now?
Secondly, for all that some from my political side have been desperately trying to make this thing a referendum on unions, I think it's both misguided and stupid. Misguided, because the actions of unions need to be evaluated: not every campaign has the best interests of the workers or the union movement overall at heart; in this one that are grave doubts that actors even support the action and it pitted different kinds of workers on the same production against one another which is never a good outcome. Stupid, because it's a tough case study from which to argue that unions bring about positive change. So I'm all for worker and union solidarity, but let's not go out of our way to be holding the can on this one, because it's going to hurt us.
Lastly, if you want to make Russell the enemy of the people, boy, I don't know... Wouldn't you be better advised to actually rebut his factual claims?