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Posted on the Writers Guild of America’s website: “We all remember how SAG members turned out in numbers to picket, march and rally with us during our contract campaign and strike. Now it’s our turn to be there for them. This Monday June 9, please join SAG for a demonstration of support for their negotiating team’s efforts to win a fair contract.
What: SAG Solidarity Rally
When: Monday, June 9 from 10 am to 12 Noon
Where: Screen Actors Guild National Headquarters, 5757 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
When: Monday, June 9 from 10 am to 12 Noon
Where: Screen Actors Guild National Headquarters, 5757 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
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I remember a lot of lip service and waving to actors as they crossed our picket line…
Yes, congrats WGA for costing the state $2.1 billion (and losing three months of work for yourselves) in a recession (that’s about to get much worse). SAG, if you want to really be tough guys, go for $2.5! F ‘em all! I wonder if it even enters the equation for these people the real destruction it causes to strike. That’s known as a rhetorical question. Go ahead and write your cliched responses that I’m a studio stooge (the old ad hominem fallacy, when one doesn’t have an argument), I’m not, and I don’t plan to read them anyway.
Please. Nobody in the media will care if there are writers on the picket lines with actors should there be a SAG strike.
This dispute is silly.The film industry in the US is so creative and rich,there should be plenty for all.
should be lots of unemployed writers out there who have nothing better to do but talk the good talk about the good deal they got. there should be lots of “these” supporters there. Good luck on your better deal…HAHA. with mortgage payments, high gas prices, etc. i can see why we would support these people…NOT
I just hope the the writer/producers/showrunners remember the support that SAG lent during the strike. If SAG hadn’t taken down the Golden Globes leaving the Oscars vulnerable we’d all STILL be on strike ! But remember that support if and when you have a say as to which contract to use in your television shows. I’m seeing an awful lot of AFTRA pilots out there. AFTRA who won’t ever go on strike and was invisible in the WGA’s efforts to get a better deal.
television showrunners: DON’T GO AFTRA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It hurts us all.
Peggy Lane O’Rourke
Amy,
Yes, there should be plenty for all, except the AMPTP doesn’t want to share. There’s an interesting article on the Huffington Post about how two years ago the WB execs were describing their internet plans and putting them into action — all the things that writers and actors have been saying they must fight against now. It’s an interesting read if you want to learn what this is all about.
Yeah, Greg O, complain about how the writers and actors are ruining it for all of you good workers out there. If you are so affected by what we do, why don’t you support keeping the work here in LA/CA where we are becoming the only state that doesn’t offer any incentives for the studios to keep the work here. And if you aren’t here, then butt out.
We are not strike I dont’ get why they are having this rally??? To show support for a team who caused a huge rift with Aftra dragged out the talks for weeks extra while they pissed off aftra enough to make them go it alone?
I walked for days at three different studios with writer friends to support them.
I don’t expect them to to show up for us until we are, god forbid, actually on strike.
Their time, energy and money need to be on getting a deal and keeping the town working. Not rally’s, not
sending emails claiming stars are behind them in deceptive language, not disinformation about aftra’s contract. Get us a deal for SAG this other stuff is wasting our time.
I’d like to think this is a good sign that there will not be a SAG strike, since a “negotiation rally” seems a little odd as opposed to a rally during the strike, but it seems more like typical guild masturbation (i.e., giving people something to do that might make them feel better, but doesn’t actually accomplish anything).
AMPTP is a cabal of jerks, but they don’t waste their time on frivolous shit. While the guilds hold masturbation rallies, produce YouTube videos, or collect pencils, AMPTP staff sit patiently in their offices and sharpen the sticks they will shove up the guilds’ asses.
Wonderful, now I can kiss what’s left of my 401K goodbye (the bank account was cleaned out after the WGA strike) while I watch self-serving egoists threaten to kill what remains of this years production schedule. Looks like another round of layoff notices for us pawns working below the line.
Next year, when this is all over, will the headlines reflect the concern that productions can no longer work in LA because the skilled labor to staff them is not available? Get real and get back to work, you are only hurting yourself and your community.
Yes, I live and work in LA, in the business, and have done so for over 25 years. I am a below the line worker who is disgusted that we are going through this again. And I am not alone.
Sorry, people, I am a network showrunner who’s deal and show was derailed by the meaningless and ego-driven writer’s strike. I just made a decision to shoot my show and a new pilot in 24P digital–Goinn AFTRA, baby, as a special gift to Patrick Verron. A SAG strike sure as hell is not going to stop any showrunner I know from working…..
Is it Sag’s fault that AFTRA members expressed a desire to be represented by a better union? Is it Sag’s fault that the writers had to strike to get the deal they needed? Is it sag’s fault that AFTRA rolled over and took whatever deal they could get from the studios, cap in hand? Is it Sag’s fault that the AMPTP play brinkmanship and Russian roulette with whoever they are at the negotiating table with? No. If Sag must strike for its members to get the deal they need for this and future generations of actors and their families then we will strike. It is our right and the only leverage we have to stand up against big media and its bullying tactics. Just because we are the last union to renew our contract with AMPTP doesn’t mean we have to take whatever crap is thrown in front of us. Don’t forget that the studios have the power and the money to make all this better and nobody ‘in the industry’ will have to strike… Or suffer… Ever…
If SAG strikes, my 23 year career below the the line will have amounted to nothing. Please, take the smaller pile of money so that the rest of us can try to pay our bills. The writers have devastated this town, a striking SAG will destroy the middle class work force in Los Angeles.
Nobody wants a strike. Alan Rosenberg has been on-record on this point for months.
However, if the moguls push SAG up against the wall and hold a knife to our throats, then a strike it will be. Just like what happened with the WGA.
Everyone who wants to see the de facto film shutdown ended and the town working full-steam should be addressing their concerns to Bob Iger and the real decision-makers of the rest of the big eight who control the AMPTP.
People who are concerned about runaway production need to address their concerns with their state assemblymen, state senators, and the governor. State legislation for production-related tax breaks is needed to counteract the generous deals being offered by New York, New Mexico, Louisiana, and a number of US states and foreign countries & territories.
The purpose of the rally is to not to “negotiate”, it is to raise the call of opposition to the AFTRA deal with the AMPTP, to let AFTRA members know in the strongest possible terms that the deal benefits the moguls at the expense of the members and the long term viability and relevance of the union.
I have detailed some of the more egregious aspects of the AFTRA deal on my blog, and I am certainly not alone in raising this alarm. Again I encourage AFTRA members to send their leadership back to the table with a mandate to renegotiate.
We have two possible outcomes. Either this is the year we fold, allowing the moguls push the actors’ unions down the devastating multi-year path of deprofessionalizing thousands upon thousands of working actors’ jobs, or it’s the year we stand tall against a blatant campaign to decimate the actors’ unions. The stakes are that high.
We have not been in a recession. The economy has still been growing by 1% which isn’t a lot, but it’s not a recession
A recession is a decline in GDP for at least 2 consecutive quarters
Fact, do you seriously believe the government’s figures?
They also claim that inflation is running at just 3 percent. What percent has gas and food increased over the last year? 10-20%? Oops, I forgot, the government stopped including food, gas and health care in the inflation figures a few years back.
Fact. Here’s a definition for you.
Empathy: Noun. Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings.
Thanks for the lesson, teach, now have a heart and find some humanity. People are hurting.
Did you happen to catch the jobs report on Friday? The same day that oil set new record highs, which affects food prices and distribution of, yeah, everything. Housing market. Unemployment. Consumer confidence. The weak dollar. Should I go on?
Are we or aren’t we…you can debate that after the next set of anemic GDP numbers get revised. Just because it can’t be “termed” something until after it has happened, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening in the here and now. Some experts like Warren Buffet and Lakshman Achuthan say we’re already there.
But what ACTUALLY matters is that real people are already feeling very real effects of the economic crisis in their lives each and every day.
And Q1-08 was a revised 0.9%, not a full 1%. Get your facts right, Fact.
Things cost more, true. But its also true that the film industry is like anything else – its competitive and the company will go where the tax breaks are to keep costs down and profits up. What can actors do? Well they can start by financing their own films, launching their own projects and putting their own money into the pot – instead of turning out these little vanity projects to trot into film festivals as another form of PR, actually produce films like other actors – Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Penny Marshall, Clint Eastwood have done. I dont like having a strong US industry look to overseas, I want it to stay a free market – whats the alternative – government made films now? Like they’re doing such a great job with education, health care, social security and anything else they get their hands on! Actors – ditch the union and “talk amongst yourselves” about launching your own projects – I dont go to the movies to see Bob Iger – whoever he is!
According to this, the writers strike threw LA into a recession:
http://la.metblogs.com/2008/06/06/writers-strike-threw-california-into-recession/
Ha, ha, ha – it’s like you people WANT a recession.
“Anonymous” and other commenters ARE studio shills spamming this site with inflammatory and wrong economic info, and whinings from alleged btl, to get people riled up and afraid to strike.
Ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Suckers.
I am a Nobody.
I work below the line.
I don’t get residuals.
I work an honest day and get paid for THAT day.
I have a family.
I have a mortgage.
I don’t have much of a buffer since the Writer’s strike.
I have a Nobody daughter who is leaving for college hoping to become Somebody.
Will I be able to pay her tuition at a State University?
Will I lose my house?
Will I lose my career?
I’ve never begged.
I am BEGGING now.
Don’t strike.
Don’t ruin lives.
See the BIG picture.
PLEASE!
inside, if you really think people are making up stuff about the current economic stuation…
1.) Go to the gas station and check the current price of gas.
2.) Go to the grocery store and check the current price of milk.
3.) Open the newspaper and look at the foreclosure and employment rates.
If after you do those 3 things, you still think recession talk is just shills inflaming the situation… well, then you’re just an idiot
Wow… according to Variety 500 people showed up for the rally.
500 of 120,000… that’s some serious support there.
The Wall St. Journal admitted having erroneously stated we’ve been in a recession.
Get your facts straight, you hysterical losers.
If you can’t take the heat and uncertainties of this business, then get out and stop complaining all the live long day.
You are not garnering any sympathy.
And, yes, the studios and AFTRA are planting comments because hysterics like you are so very easy to manipulate.
So sick of you people who choose to be in one of the most unstable industries, and then you all act entitled to job security.
The economy slowing and prices going up does NOT equate to recession.
You morons are going to make a recession happen. Get your information accurate.
Why on earth would anyone be threatened by a statement that the U.S. has not yet entered a recession? Do you people want a recession?
“FACT” is 100% correct – the U.S. hasn’t yet entered into recession.
You people can only respond to facts with ad hominem irrational attacks.
No one has stated prices haven’t been rising all around, and that the economy hasn’t slowed. THAT IS NOT A RECESSION.
I’d like to know how many of the shrill opinionated morons on this blog, shrieking that the sky is falling, are actually in the biz and working.
Or, are you all a bunch of wanna-bes, bystanders, and bloggers who love the sound of their own voice and are so full of self-righteous opinions but contribute nothing of value (with the stellar exception of Nikki)?