Y’know what I want in Hollywood? Apprentice unions. Anyone wanting to join, say, 705 first joins 705A, pays a first year fee and has to take X number of classes of their choice that year. After completing X number of classes they immediately qualify for entry into 705 and...

their initial fee covers the cost of those classes, plus a partial down payment on their dues.
Teaching the classes also creates jobs for members of 705 who are getting tired of 14-hour-day’s on set.
And then you don’t have members getting in who have been doing things wrong...

...for years, because you taught them right.
Then the union can control the whole field within the industry and have much greater bargaining power, which is kinda the point of unions in the first place.
Le sigh.

My other Hollywood Pipe Dream is to have an Acting Department with its own budget and department head. That way there is always someone on set to advocate for the actors, and unexpected expenses like voice coaches or larger trailers isn’t coming out of the total budget.

I once did a show where the director’s wife (a very talented actress and teacher) came in several days a week to coach the talent (not professional actors) and the days she was there were SO MUCH SMOOTHER for all of us. It had a domino effect on EVERY department because the...

talent could talk to her safely, and learn, and be advocated for, and also be kindly corrected when they didn’t know the set etiquette.
It was like night and day.
All sets need her.