Actors vote to join writers in historic strike as studios continue to value AI over workers:
“insulting and disrespectful” responses to their union’s proposals. This will be the first time actors and writers have been on strike together since 1960. The strike begins at midnight.
The news comes on the heels of an outrageous statement by an Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers studio executive, who told, “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.” The greed, hubris and cruelty being weaponized are only further put into perspective by the key issues of the negotiations. Looking to increase streaming residuals for workers and to implement contractual protections against the prevalent threat of AI , the union was met with what Drescher says were claims of studio “poverty.
The strike vote comes after a negotiation process that had been extended from June 30 until yesterday, July 12. A federal mediator from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service joined talks for a single day, though this wasby the union as a “cynical ploy to engineer an extension when the companies have had more than enough time to make a fair deal.”
While some productions have been attempting to stay in progress during the WGA strike, SAG-AFTRA’s strike will add the heft of 160,000 workers to a cause increasingly winning the favor of public opinion in the wake of
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