George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis & More Celebs React To Actors’ Strike As SAG-AFTRA Hits The Picket Lines
etcanada.comIt’s official: Hollywood’s actors are joining writers on the picket lines. On Thursday at midnight, the deal between Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) officially went on strike, joining the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which has been on strike since May.
This latest action marks the union’s first strike in 43 years, and the first time since 1960 that both unions have hit the picket lines simultaneously. READ MORE: SAG-AFTRA Announces Historic Double Strike As Actors Join Writers On Picket Line In announcing the union’s decision to strike, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher delivered a fiery speech explaining why she and her fellow actors were left with no other option. “The eyes of the world, and particularly the eyes of labour, are upon us,” she said. “What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labour.
By means of when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run.” READ MORE: ‘House Of The Dragon’ To Proceed Filming In U.K.
Under Local Union Regulation Amid SAG-AFTRA Strike Added Drescher: “The gravity of this move is not lost on me.
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