WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion
WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion
#1WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:32am
Heard this on the news this morning, so I googled it and found this article (evidently it's over a month old, but the morning news decided to air it today).
The WGA strike will cost the California economy a projected 37,700 jobs and $2.1 billion in lost output through the end of 2008, according to a report from the Milken Institute.
Ugh
"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#2re: WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:41am
We know people who lost their homes, some who lost their jobs and a couple who lost their independent businesses. The effect was much more far-reaching than people realized - things I never would have associated with the industry, but are actually dependent on it's survival.
Very scary - but also the reason that most people view the bottom line here VERY seriously.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#3re: WGA strike costs CA $2.1 billion
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:27pmI am feeling it. I lost 1/3 of my yearly income for the shop during that strike. Luckily I had some display work to do to tide me over otherwise I would be in a cardboard box underneath the Brooklyn Bridge just feet from that "FABULOUS" 15.5 million dollar waterfall!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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