LOS ANGELES—Kerry Washington and Martin Sheen, a pair of fictional former politicos, turned Hollywood’s strikes into a rousing campaign rally Tuesday with speeches celebrating unity across the industry and with labor at large. “We are here because we know that unions matter,” said Washington, who played a political fixer on…
LOS ANGELES—Kerry Washington and Martin Sheen, a pair of fictional former politicos, turned Hollywood’s strikes into a rousing campaign rally Tuesday with speeches celebrating unity across the industry and with labor at large.
“The audacity of these studios to say they can’t afford to pay their workers after they make billions in profits is utterly ridiculous,” Los Angeles County Federation of Labor president Yvonne Wheeler told the crowd. She added a dig at Disney’s CEO, who has become a target of strikers.Sheen, who played the president for seven seasons on, was joined by most of the show’s main cast members on the stage as he emphasized that the toll being taken as the strikes stretch out.
“We deserve to be able to be paid a fair wage. We deserve to have access to healthcare. We deserve to be free from machines pretending to be us,” Washington said. “The dream of being working artist, the dream of making a living doing what we want to do, should not be impossible.” Talks have restarted between the studios and writers, who went on strike on May 2, though progress has been slow. There have been no negotiations with actors since they went on strike on July 14.
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