Hijole!

Well, first thing's first. "Hijole" is pronounced "EE-ho-lay" for my non-spanish readers, and it is used in the same way as "good grief", "holy cow", "jeez" or "yeesh!" My Hispanic co-workers at my day job use it all the time, and I just learned how to spell it this weekend. Yay me! =D

Anyhow, on to the real point of this post. I read in the paper today that SAG is -- finally, officially -- going to move to strike. Hijole! 

Doesn't mean they will actually strike. They are going to put it to a vote of SAG members, they need 75% approval to actually strike. EE - HO-LAY!

If it is approved, they will be striking come January. Yeesh.

I had tentatively been planning to start submitting again come January, but with the economy the way that it is, and SAG strike looming once again on the horizon, maybe I'll just sit quietly in my day job a little bit longer. Hijole.

Not that I am actually a SAG member yet, so I guess it doesn't affect me? But it affects the industry and so affects me as non-Union, gotta be careful not to cross the picket line and take a SAG job, or I will be black balled. And I'm not sure how many legitimate non-union jobs will be out there. hijole

There was also a second interesting article in the paper, a well developed argument by the column's author about why SAG wouldn't and/or shouldn't actually strike, that the move to strike is just an attempt at a fear tactic to improve negotiations in their favor. There was also a link to the author's blog, The Big Picture, in the paper. I'll have to read more into the blog, but at first appearances, it seems to be a good source of info on the business.