SAG-AFTRA Surveying Members About Industry’s Covid Vaccination Mandates & Other Issues
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA is surveying its members about how they feel about the industry’s Covid vaccination mandate in advance of the January 31 expiration of the Covid protocols, per an oft-extended agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and Hollywood’s unions. “Do you approve of employers requiring Covid-19 vaccination as a condition of access to the set?” asks one of the questions. “If there are extenuating circumstances that mean a production will not go forward in the absence of an employer vaccine mandate, do you support the employer being able to implement such a mandate?” asks another.
The survey (see it here) also asks how familiar members are with SAG-AFTRA’s “development of Covid-19 safety protocols and policies” that have “created a safer workplace during a global pandemic.” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher had asked for the survey.
In the current issue of the SAG-AFTRA Magazine, she wrote: “I continue to fight on behalf of our members who feel discriminated against because of the Covid unvaccinated or un-boosted status, which is keeping them from working in major studio productions.
For those members not being fairly considered by studios with regards to their religious or health exemptions, help is on the way! “As a result of this lingering policy, many performers have lost their representation, their medical benefits and their livelihoods.
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