The SAG-AFTRA union has informed industry publicists to brace themselves for potential actors strike in Hollywood if negotiations fail.
The move to strike appears to have support from top-level actors such as Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, and others, all of whom“A strike brings incredible hardships to so many, and no one wants it. But we are prepared to strike if it comes to that,” the letter said, adding that 2023 became an “unprecedented inflection point in our industry.
We want you to know that we would rather go on strike than compromise on these fundamental points, and we believe that, if we settle for a less than transformative deal, the future of our union and our craft will be undermined, and SAG-AFTRA will enter the next negotiation with drastically reduced leverage.
The SAG-AFTRA union overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike just a little over a month after the Writers Guild of America enacted its own strike, claiming unfair wages and staffing cuts. Some striking writersthat streaming services have hollowed out the work to such a degree that they now feel like Uber drivers in a gig economy rather than creatives with a career that supports them.
“The streamers don’t care about anything, they think we’re Uber drivers: ‘Come in, do your job, go home, that’s great. You’re free,’” Marjorie David, the vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West,
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