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Writers strike

Levine Breaking News reports***Up
to 1,000 employees at Time Warner’s Warner Bros. studio in Burbank,
Calif., could be laid off after Friday as a result of the Hollywood
writers strike. The Warner Bros. notice represents the first concrete
sign that the strike could trigger massive job cuts across Hollywood.

Is this just the start?  So often we see this as the pattern in strikes…jobs go away and companies restructure, getting leaner and relying more on technology.  I have heard from so many studio execs who tell me that they are continually trying to get leaner.  Maybe the union handed them a way to do just that?

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