Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kumail Nanjiani and More Urge SAG-AFTRA Members to Authorize Strike (Video)

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Voting yes is NOT a vote to strike. It gives the board the POWER to strike if the AMPTP doesn’t agree to the essential contract improvements our members need.We’re a union, and a union stands together!

pic.twitter.com/aSdTvb23WNThe guild is set to begin talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on June 7.

Guild leadership is asking members for permission to go on strike should talks between SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP break down, as talks between AMPTP and the Writers Guild of America did on May 2, sparking the ongoing writers’ strike.Ahead of negotiations, on May 17 the guild’s board formally asked members for permission to strike, should negotiators deem it necessary.

As a sign of where membership might be, the board acted unanimously.Participants in the video emphasized that voting to authorize a strike doesn’t mean a strike will happen, only that the guild doesn’t have to seek further permission and can use that possibility as leverage.“A ‘yes’ vote,” Smart said during the clip, “just means that we give the national board the power to strike if the AMPTP does not give our members the essential contract improvements they need.”“It is simply a tool in our arsenal,” Nanjiani adds.