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The Hollywood Reporter: On Thursday morning, SAG-AFTRA finally ended the 118-day actors strike after its negotiating committee approved a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios valued at over $1 billion.
First, I have to say that Crabtree-Ireland has provided an excellent example of good interview responses – I thought his responses to all the questions were clear, firm and very well articulated. As he said, many people have been affected by the strike and reaching a deal is a phenomenon deal for everyone, whether in the union or not. For the past 6 months, many articles we’ve been reading talk about how the strike has affected people beyond the screenwriters and actors. With the resumption of many productions, it is beautiful to see people get back to the work they love. The new contract won’t be perfect, as I’m sure there are still many terms and agreements to be discussed, but as Crabtree-Ireland pointed out, this will be a continuous working process, and they will look back to this for future negotiations. I also understand wanting to know more details about the deal, but at the same time, I agree with him that there are confidentiality reasons behind how much they can reveal.
I was very happy to hear that this strike has come to an end. When this all started at a similar time as writer's strike, all of Hollywood came to a screeching halt. After the writer's strike came to a conclusion, I was worried that the actor's strike would start to reach a point of resentment as everyone was ready to get back to wotk. I was happy to see that everyone still held out until SAG accepted an agreement that they saw fit, and I'm happy to see that SAG is happy with their deal. I'm excited to see how this goes moving forward, hopefully both SAG and the WGA not needing to go back to a strike anytime soon. It was weird having actors with movies coming out that weren't able to promote their movies, but is funny to see all of them now going out to ensure their movies get the viewership they deserve. I hope that Hollywood will now continue making content that all of the creators and actors are happy with and are compensated and protected fairly.
The strike is over finally! I've been following along with it as everyone clearly has and I couldn't be more happy with the outcome. I can really appreciate this interview because it provides a perspective that I haven't heard from you as most of the people I've heard talking about the strike are either people observing the strike or people in the strike itself not necessarily people who have been privy to all the detail information throughout it. This was the longest strike in SAG AFTRA history and I hope it stays that way as long strikes like this one are certainly hard on workers. I'm really interested to see in more detail the concessions that were made. I’m very interested to see how the combined success of both the writers’ and the actors’ strikes will affect the bargaining in future Union negotiations across all Industries. Hopefully, they won't all need to go on for this long.
When I heard that the strike was over I was so excited and I was in a bit of disbelief. I think that the fact that it took this long is something that everyone, not only just people in the industry , needs to reflect on. It is well known that people were not being protected properly and when the stroke started it was as if they were not being taken seriously. I think that it is an amazing accomplishment that the strike took this long and how committed everyone was to get the proper protection and care that our industry workers need. The fact of the matter is that so many people had to put their lives on hold and wait for the strike to come to a deal that they had to get side professions. In an article I read last week a lightning designer was talking about how their are a group of lighting designers that come together every week and learn more about the technological advances so when the strike does finish they are still good in the industry. Now it is over and they can go back to work safely and protected.
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First, I have to say that Crabtree-Ireland has provided an excellent example of good interview responses – I thought his responses to all the questions were clear, firm and very well articulated. As he said, many people have been affected by the strike and reaching a deal is a phenomenon deal for everyone, whether in the union or not. For the past 6 months, many articles we’ve been reading talk about how the strike has affected people beyond the screenwriters and actors. With the resumption of many productions, it is beautiful to see people get back to the work they love. The new contract won’t be perfect, as I’m sure there are still many terms and agreements to be discussed, but as Crabtree-Ireland pointed out, this will be a continuous working process, and they will look back to this for future negotiations. I also understand wanting to know more details about the deal, but at the same time, I agree with him that there are confidentiality reasons behind how much they can reveal.
I was very happy to hear that this strike has come to an end. When this all started at a similar time as writer's strike, all of Hollywood came to a screeching halt. After the writer's strike came to a conclusion, I was worried that the actor's strike would start to reach a point of resentment as everyone was ready to get back to wotk. I was happy to see that everyone still held out until SAG accepted an agreement that they saw fit, and I'm happy to see that SAG is happy with their deal. I'm excited to see how this goes moving forward, hopefully both SAG and the WGA not needing to go back to a strike anytime soon. It was weird having actors with movies coming out that weren't able to promote their movies, but is funny to see all of them now going out to ensure their movies get the viewership they deserve. I hope that Hollywood will now continue making content that all of the creators and actors are happy with and are compensated and protected fairly.
The strike is over finally! I've been following along with it as everyone clearly has and I couldn't be more happy with the outcome. I can really appreciate this interview because it provides a perspective that I haven't heard from you as most of the people I've heard talking about the strike are either people observing the strike or people in the strike itself not necessarily people who have been privy to all the detail information throughout it. This was the longest strike in SAG AFTRA history and I hope it stays that way as long strikes like this one are certainly hard on workers. I'm really interested to see in more detail the concessions that were made. I’m very interested to see how the combined success of both the writers’ and the actors’ strikes will affect the bargaining in future Union negotiations across all Industries. Hopefully, they won't all need to go on for this long.
When I heard that the strike was over I was so excited and I was in a bit of disbelief. I think that the fact that it took this long is something that everyone, not only just people in the industry , needs to reflect on. It is well known that people were not being protected properly and when the stroke started it was as if they were not being taken seriously. I think that it is an amazing accomplishment that the strike took this long and how committed everyone was to get the proper protection and care that our industry workers need. The fact of the matter is that so many people had to put their lives on hold and wait for the strike to come to a deal that they had to get side professions. In an article I read last week a lightning designer was talking about how their are a group of lighting designers that come together every week and learn more about the technological advances so when the strike does finish they are still good in the industry. Now it is over and they can go back to work safely and protected.
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