know when to fold ‘em
Let freedom ring. (hurr hurr hurr, geddit, “ring”.)
The New Zealand Actors Equity on Thursday recommended lifting a boycott on “The Hobbit,” that was imposed after complaints that the producers would not let the union negotiate a minimum wage and working conditions.
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“In an effort to re-establish stability in the New Zealand film industry, NZ Equity has recommended to all international performance unions that they rescind any forms of advice to their members that they not work on the feature film production ‘The Hobbit,’” the union said in an online statement on Thursday.
See, this is how you deal with a pack of extortionate thugs: take your business elsewhere.
“It appears now we cannot make films in our own country - even when substantial financing is available,” Jackson and his filmmaking partner and wife, Fran Walsh, said in a statement.
Ronald The Great had this figured out years ago. Just ask the Air Traffic Controllers.
apotheosis, wasteland legend 
