It's a “Strike Girl Summer.”
Outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, throngs of protesters chanted: “Fists up, curtains down, LA is a union town.” Food trucks flanking organizers' tents served churros, boba tea and cold lemonade to protesters baking in the midday heat that reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit .
Parents on the picket line hoisted their children over their shoulders and pushed toddlers in strollers, high-fiving one another with signs that reflected defiant lyrics from“The jig is up," said Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA and once the titular star of “The Nanny” at SAG's press conference Thursday. “The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, A.I. If we don’t stand tall right now, we’re all going to be in trouble.
“If you are gaining momentum like we are 70-odd days into a strike, you are going to win,” Conover said. “You know, the companies' strategy with the writers guild when we go on strike is to starve us out and wait, not even talk to us for months because they expect us to bleed support. Yet, look at this — our picket lines are more full than ever and now have another union on strike with us.”“What we won in 1960 was our health and pension plans, and the existence of residuals,” Conover said.
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