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Thursday, September 07, 2023
Photos: Richard Gere and Sheryl Lee Ralph Hit Up Picket Lines
www.thewrap.com: As the actors strike entered its fourth month, morale among SAG-AFTRA members remained high despite no additional talks with the AMPTP, not to mention the picket-line hurdles of hurricanes and heat waves.
1 comment:
E Carleton
said...
It is lovely to see that some of the high list actors, writers and directors are still supporting the strike, even though it doesn’t affect them in the same way. Something I hadn’t considered with the strikes is how many people from all different professions are impacted and how skewed the support is. Another article mentioned, members of WGA and SAG-AFTRA have donated over 15 million to their own emergency funds. Of course that is great news for the recipients of the support, but that kind of support is not reaching the other thousands who are also out of work. As one crew worker did the math, crews won’t get hired onto productions until at least early 2024 if the strike ends today. So how will the industry handle hundreds of people who have to move or find other jobs to support themselves and can’t come back to production work. As another article page quotes, executives of these major production companies are simply waiting on union members to start losing housing to end the strike. I guess I’m naive in my belief that companies should care more about the people they employ.
1 comment:
It is lovely to see that some of the high list actors, writers and directors are still supporting the strike, even though it doesn’t affect them in the same way. Something I hadn’t considered with the strikes is how many people from all different professions are impacted and how skewed the support is. Another article mentioned, members of WGA and SAG-AFTRA have donated over 15 million to their own emergency funds. Of course that is great news for the recipients of the support, but that kind of support is not reaching the other thousands who are also out of work. As one crew worker did the math, crews won’t get hired onto productions until at least early 2024 if the strike ends today. So how will the industry handle hundreds of people who have to move or find other jobs to support themselves and can’t come back to production work. As another article page quotes, executives of these major production companies are simply waiting on union members to start losing housing to end the strike. I guess I’m naive in my belief that companies should care more about the people they employ.
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