SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Fires Up New York Picket Lines: ‘There Is No Turning Back!’
variety.comJoe Otterson TV Reporter SAG-AFTRA national president Fran Drescher stopped off at multiple picket lines in New York on Thursday to rally the members of the guild as their strike continues. “I just want to say I am so grateful for your enthusiasm and your commitment to this strike,” Drescher told the pickets outside HBO’s New York offices. “It means everything.
It’s so important that we stay united. It is essential that we hold firm and stand tall because this is a seminal negotiation.
We cannot go back to the way things were. Too much has changed. They have to wake up and smell the coffee!” SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July 14 after the guild and the AMPTP, which represents the major Hollywood studios and streamers, failed to come to terms on a new contract.
Drescher was joined on the picket line by SAG-AFTRA’s New York Local president Ezra Knight as well as by former SAG presidents Richard Masur and Melissa Gilbert and Michelle Hurd, the Los Angeles Local vice president.
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