LABOR AND MANAGEMENT

 

Another scene from Big Machine, which was wonderfully produced. Rosie, one of the leaders of the workers, confronts the plant manager, named - very oddly, sorry - Methuselah. He is a sympathetic character, too, stuck in a corporate assignment away from his family, another cog in the machine.

The real work starts tonight as the main part of The Fringe schedule begins. I’ll probably shoot at least 20 shows in the next six days. Then I have to edit all of it.            

Teamsters

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Representatives of organized labor at the I 64 reopening. I was a Teamster once, Local 125, Irvington NJ. I had to join for a summer job I had during law school, driving a Coca Cola delivery truck. In general, I support unions. They stand in the way of workers being crushed by evil corporate overlords. Well, they aren't all evil. Some are, though.

One weird aspect of my law practice is that the relationship between the judges I practice before and the federal agency they work for is so acrimonious that the judges are unionized. Chew on that.

REMEMBER, TOMORROW IS STL DPB'S 1,000TH POST. There's bound to be some sort of silly image.

STL DPB On The Road: Labor In Nepal

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A woman carries a large sack along a muddy road in the outskirts of Bhaktipur. We saw this kind of labor often in Nepal and Tibet. I can't speculate what this does to the cervical spine.

I apologize for not getting back to leaving comments on my friend's blogs. Eleven time zones of jet lag has been tough to overcome. I've stumbled around work my first two days back and fallen asleep after dinner. Back to that this evening, I hope. Got to get out and shoot some new St. Louis material this weekend.