-Hollywood and Strikers Watch Clock (NYT, 11/21)Mr. Young, who is executive director of the West Coast guild, is well acquainted with corporate strength, something he confronted during the mid-1990s as a leader in the unions that sought unsuccessfully to organize garment workers employed by Guess Inc.
Writing of that campaign in the fall/winter 2005 issue of The American Sociologist, Edna Bonacich, a sociologist who worked closely with Mr. Young both then and later at the writers guild, noted that “he studied Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’ with deep attention, trying to find its applicability to union struggles.” (The fascination has been shared by modern students of conflict as diverse as Douglas MacArthur, Lee Atwater and Michael S. Ovitz.)Should Mr. Young and his colleagues make only small gains next week, they could make a midcourse correction in their strike strategy and sidestep the dangers of a protracted fight against a strong opponent. They could return to work without a contract, with an eye toward joining the much larger Screen Actors Guild in a renewed strike next June.
A: at least four times since 1997. (One of which is Steven Greenhouse's report on the UC Santa Barbara Wal-Mart Conference.)
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