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    Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

    Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.
    by Bob Mondello Sep 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama <em>Norma Rae.</em>

    The image is iconic: Sally Field standing atop a work table in a noisy textile factory in Martin Ritt's 1979 workplace drama Norma Rae.

    Her Norma Rae Wilson's just been fired for creating a disturbance at the factory, the sheriff's coming to haul her off to jail, and she's holding up a piece of cardboard on which she's scrawled just one word: "UNION."

    Every eye in the factory is on her as, one by one, her coworkers, many of whom she's angered and alienated with her activism, shut down their machines in support.

    For a long moment, the silence is deafening — a cinematic portrait of worker solidarity that 1970s audiences found moving at least partly because it was so rare.

    Might that solidarity speak to today's Hollywood, where strikes by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and

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