The unions (SAG, now the Writers Guild) keep insisting on shooting themselves in both feet with strikes ever since the disastrous SAG commercial strike of 2000. The biz ain't what it used to be in Hollywood and never will be again due to: "runaway production" (shoots and production outside of the U.S.), fewer features being filmed (due to bloated ad and "star" budgets), prohibitive exterior permitting (by greedy cities making the cost and bureaucratic maze of shooting on the streets a major factor in films being shot in Romania instead of Hollywood), animation (who needs actors?), non-union actors and crews taking up the slack during and after any strike, non-compliant casting directors (almost all of them) who refuse to honor union strikes, and last but not least, unions run by dingbat boards of directors who can't get actual work in the industry but enjoy flexing their power over the studios and depriving all of the starving, sacrificing actors and wannabe crew/writers of any chance of perhaps, just perhaps, making it in the biz. Bucharest is the new Hollywood, and Hollywood is the new Detroit.