Watch Fran Drescher Blast ‘Insulting’ AMPTP Behavior in Fiery SAG-AFTRA Strike Speech: ‘Shame On You!’
variety.comWilliam Earl SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher gave an emotional speech at Thursday’s press conference announcing the union’s plans to strike.
During her heartfelt words, she had many pointed messages for the AMPTP, including, “We are labor and we stand tall and we demand respect and to be honored for our contribution” and “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.” Watch Drescher’s speech and read a full transcript of it below. “Thank you everybody for coming to this press conference today.
It’s really important that this negotiation be covered, because the eyes of the world, and particularly the eyes of labor, are upon us.
What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run. “We have a problem, and we are experiencing that right at this moment.
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