10 Movie Organisations That Really Needed A Better Union

4. The Sullivan Family €“ Road To Perdition

Road to Perdition Blatantly, this is a case of a workplace dispute gone wrong, and was in dire need of mediation. Just to set the scene for you, it goes something like this. A sullen Tom Hanks works with Daniel Craig, but his one day Hanks' son Tyler Hoechlin stows away in the boot of his father's sweet 1930s ride and watches the two men at work. Craig takes exception to this, and murderises Hanks' family, save for the son €“ who was absent €“ and Hanks himself. Obviously what Craig did seems like something of an overreaction until you learn what it is he and Hanks do for a living. They straight-up murder folk, so understandably, he was a little cagey that his kid witnessed a gangland hit. Obviously again, this sort of industry doesn't breed a good union, or even a tangible one. But hell, Paul Newman's mob boss runs it like a family business, so let's get on and run this thought experiment into the ground. Clearly, if Hanks was able to bring legal power into this morally grey world, he could get Craig struck off in an instant and get a tidy restitution to boot. Of course, it wouldn't heal the pain of his loss, but hey, at least it's something, and something more than the attempted Newman-sponsored ass-whupping he got instead. On that note, getting spectacularly axed over your boss's son's workplace misunderstanding is the most cut-and-dry unfair dismissal case I've ever seen. Rather than sending him to the afterlife, he should've been plundering Cool Hand Luke for all he was worth. You know, if that union could actually ever exist. Which it couldn't.
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