be available as an option to future
generations of performers.
SAG-AFTRA STRIKES
In the final hours of SAG-AFTRA's
negotiations with the AMPTP, after nearly
five weeks of work which included an
extension through July 12 — and following
over 70 days of WGA picketing — the
CEOs began saying the quiet part out
loud. An unnamed studio executive was
quoted in a July 11 Deadline article as
saying, "The endgame is to allow things to
drag on until union members start losing
their apartments and losing their houses."
The social media backlash resulted in a
Washington-Mid Atlantic members
rally at AFL-CIO headquarters.
Crabtree-Ireland and SAG-AFTRA
member Sean Penn picket at Disney.
Members of the SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee
begin their first day of picketing Los Angeles studios.
