Thursday's picket site: Disney

With a deal expected to be announced as early as this weekend, what's expected to be the last big demonstration of the WGA strike has been set for Thursday outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.

(Seems like a curious choice of for the central picket site, given Disney CEO Robert Iger's role in helping to negotiate the compromise that is poised to put the town back to work, but...)

The United Hollywood site is telling members this:

"Send a signal to the companies: If you want to make sure no last-minute legalistic monkey business derails the progress toward a fair and reasonable WGA deal, take a few laps around Disney tomorrow."

SAG has also notified its members thusly:

"Now more than ever, we must bolster our commitment and keep walking picket lines to let management know that we stand firmly with our brothers and sisters at the WGA. The commitment of actors has been astounding—and our message has been heard loud and clear: The WGA’s fight is our fight."

Comments

[Fi Core]

Yes children nice little laps,maybe in circles,but watch out for btl workers,this strike has been over since the dga settled but we had to play the game and let 2 down easy,and remember thank the dga members when u c them for the only gains u got,but thats right I forgot,not 2 many have jobs 2 go back 2,well when they go thru the check out lane at walmart then

[Fi Core]

I have purple crayons! I like Chuck E. Cheese!

[Stuart Creque]

"(Seems like a curious choice of for the central picket site, given Disney CEO Robert Iger's role in helping to negotiate the compromise that is poised to put the town back to work, but...)"

Seems like the ideal choice: demonstrating to one of the few CEOs directly involved in the talks that the WGA is staying solid until the deal is well and truly done. It's not punitive, it's educational.

[Lackland]

I believe the whole point of the mass turnout at Disney is to encourage the Company legal teams to accurately and swiftly reduce to writing what has already been orally agreed upon by the CEOs. Unlike the DGA, which went ahead with what looked like a press release, the WGA needs a fairly complete written deal to show its members, who really are used to thinking for themselves, since line by line, that's what screen writing requires. Until they can read a comprehensive deal document, the picketers will be out in force - and if Lucy yanks the football away, they'll stay out in force.