No SAG Strike! ...please

[rydot]

Wow, my first movie industry related post?

If you are a member of SAG, and you find yourself in possession of a "Go on strike? Y/N" type ballot, I implore you to vote NO...

No SAG Strike! PetitionTo: AMPTP & SAG

Comments

[pjg1872]

SAG is screwed. If they strike, most of their members will work as AFTRA members, and AMPTP will just use AFTRA more. SAG will simply dissolve.

AFTRA

[rydot]

Would that work for feature films?

Re: AFTRA

[pjg1872]

YEAH. Most actors are both. If you don't have a contract with a group of people, you can get a contract with another group of people. SAG isn't the only actors union in town. This stuff has happened before. Look at NABET and IATSE.

[thenon]

I already signed that petition. I wanna keep my job, thank you!

[wolodymyr]

Since I have the luxury of being able to look at it abstractly: doesn't NOT striking basically reward the studios for the labor policies/ bargaining strategies they're been pursuing, which have included fraud

[stacymckenna]

I know increasing scale for the production unions (like the teamsters) has resulted in a lot of outsourcing for production, meaning fewer jobs in the states.

Perhaps I'm done editing now? I hope so!

[wolodymyr]

Okay, I'll amend - I mean, how does it hurt the actor's guild to increase scale? And I don't mean, how does it hurt them *right now*, because a strike always hurts *right now.* How does it hurt them as a guild overall in the next 15-25 years

Re: Perhaps I'm done editing now? I hope so!

[stacymckenna]

Perhaps I'm done editing now? I hope so!::chuckle:: When I got home to my inbox my first thought was "I certainly hope those are all edits... otherwise this is a BOOK