Women Leaders Of WGA, SAG-AFTRA & AFL-CIO Join Picket Line Outside Fox Studios In L.A.
deadline.comWGA West President Meredith Stiehm, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and SAG-AFTRA national board members Frances Fisher and Shari Belafonte joined hundreds of striking writers and actors on the picket line today outside the main gate of Fox Studios in Century City.
Also on hand were Yvonne Wheeler, the newly elected president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, and Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, executive secretary treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.
Stiehm, noting that this is the 87th day of the writers strike, told the sign-carrying picketers gathered in front of the studio’s block-long water fountain on Pico Boulevard: “If we want something enough and think it’s really worthwhile, we may have to struggle for it.
That’s how you get things of value – you fight for it.” Chanting “On strike, shut it down, L.A. is a union town,” the peaceful and cheerful picketers carried signs that read, “A robot would make a great CEO” and, in a knock on Disney, “We’re unrealistic?
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