‘All of American Labor Has Joined Our Fight’: SAG-AFTRA Chief Pushes Studios to Negotiate as Actors Strike Hits Day 53 (Guest Column)
variety.comDuncan Crabtree-Ireland Labor Day is more than a long weekend of beaches, barbecues and block parties. It’s a national celebration marking the economic and social contributions of American workers.
How ironic, then, that SAG-AFTRA members are observing this 141st Labor Day on strike against a global industry that refuses to fairly recognize the contributions of the workers who power its economic success.
When our contract expired July 12, we told representatives for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (which includes the major studios and streamers like Amazon, Apple TV, Disney, Fox, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros.
Discovery and others) that we were willing to continue negotiating. The response was a hard “no.” The AMPTP went even further and told us it would be “quite some time before they would be ready to talk” with us again.
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