Posts by Sacha
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Remembered where I saw the Tarantino reference now - Patrick Gower's blog.
Once industrial relations get to the point of a threatened boycott, you can't just sit down and have a chat. Every word, every action matters.
In Jackson's words, the unions had a gun to his head.
And in a scene more reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino than Peter Jackson, Warner Bros turned up with an even bigger gun and put it to New Zealand's head.
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Snap, Kracklite
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Matt McCarten is trying to spin the saga
More bloody unions-always-right tunnel vision. From someone who I've always thought provided a successful example of how to run a modern union, and craft spin-resistant communications.
All too easy to imagine the government and media describing this inflamed writing as stereotypical 'envy': "Sir Richard Taylor marched a mob of Orcs to pitchfork union attendees trying to attend a meeting. All good humour and gloating at the Jackson mansion that night I'm sure."
As long as the union movement is in this sort of denial, there is no victory
Sadly true.
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Finger-pointing, accusations, and a seeming willingness to believe the worst of others
Bad faith has a corrosive effect.
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Oil and gas is a long-term strategy?
Don't get Millsy started again
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whey-faced Warners executives
poetry
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Embarrassing
Jeez, writers these days :)
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not that there's anything wrong with that
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Could be worse - I know someone who evokes Peter Griffin perfectly