Fran Drescher On The Studios Refusing To Negotiate And The SAG-AFTRA Strike Hitting 100 Days – Guest Column
deadline.comEditor’s note: On the 100th day of SAG-AFTRA’s strike, the 160,000-strong guild and the studios are once again not talking, and no new negotiations are planned.
Writers are back at work, but with no actors deal, Hollywood production remains shut down. SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher asserts that it doesn’t have to be like this, that the economic suffering has to be solved.
But first, she writes, the studios have to return to the bargaining table and stop playing games with the industry and people’s livelihoods. *** The members of SAG-AFTRA are in a David-and-Goliath, righteous fight for the future of our profession and our industry.
The 10-year grace period we have given the AMPTP companies to build their streaming platforms at the expense of my members’ fair compensation has come to a screeching halt.
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