SAG-AFTRA Members Say They’d Rather Stay on Strike Than ‘Cave’ to a Bad Deal
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer More than 3,600 SAG-AFTRA members have signed an open letter stating that they would rather stay on strike than “cave” to a bad deal.
The group, calling itself Members in Solidarity, includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Hamm, Maya Hawke, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo and Bryan Cranston, among many other notable names.
The letter expresses support for the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee, and says that it speaks for the majority of the guild who “are still standing in solidarity, ready to strike as long as it takes and to endure whatever we must in order to win a deal that is worthy of our collective sacrifice.” SAG-AFTRA has been on strike for 105 days, shutting down almost all scripted film and TV production. “We have not come all this way to cave now,” the letter states. “We have not gone without work, without pay, and walked picket lines for months just to give up on everything we’ve been fighting for.
We cannot and will not accept a contract that fails to address the vital and existential problems that we all need fixed.” The letter comes at a critical point in the strike, as many members have started to grow restless.
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