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The federal mediator had arranged the first formal face-to-face in months between the two parties. But, given the acrimonious history of their stalled negotiations, it’s not surprising that there was no progress. The question, just as it was before the economic climate collapsed, is what happens next? SAG seemed to answer that by issuing this statement about the breakdown of talks:
“Our leadership was optimistic that federal mediation would help to move our negotiations forward, but despite the Guild’s extraordinary efforts to reach agreement, the mediation was adjourned shortly before 1:00 AM today.
“Management continues to insist on terms we cannot responsibly accept on behalf of our members. As previously authorized by the National Board of Directors, we will now launch a full-scale education campaign in support of a strike authorization referendum. We will further inform our members about the core, critical issues unique to actors that remain in dispute.
“We have already made difficult decisions and sacrifices in an attempt to reach agreement. Now it’s time for SAG members to stand united and empower the national negotiating committee to bargain with the strength of a possible work stoppage behind them.
“We remain committed to avoiding a strike but now more than ever we cannot allow our employers to experiment with our careers. The WGA has already learned that the new media terms they agreed to with the AMPTP are not being honored. We cannot allow our employers to undermine the futures of our members and their families.
“No timeline has been set for the mailing or return of the strike authorization ballots.”
SAG’s National Board left it up to the guild’s national negotiating committee to determine if and when mediation became fruitless. Once that point was reached, then the referendum seeking a strike authorization goes out to members. 
I’m told this process takes anywhere from 30 to 45 days, including three weeks for the ballots to come back to SAG. If the vote is yes to empower a strike by at least 75% of eligible SAG members who return ballots, this still does not mean a strike will be called. Because then it’s up to the National Board to decide if and when to call for the work stoppage. So Hollywood is a step closer to another strike — but it still may not happen. Now everything is up to SAG members. Nevertheless, the timing could threaten the Golden Globes and Academy Awards again.
The AMPTP got out first word of the talks breakdown with this statement:
“The AMPTP accepted the federal mediator’s invitation to meet with SAG in hopes of concluding our seventh major agreement of 2008. The Producers met for two days with SAG at the request of federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez. The parties were unable to reach an agreement and the mediator has adjourned the mediation process.”
Long Stalled SAG-AMPTP Talks Resume
SAG National Board Requests Mediator Before Strike Authorization Vote
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Fed Up wrote, “The studios ARE NOT making any money. All the income from the new media advertising is just covering the money LOST in the broadcasting media.”
Thanks for the education. And thank goodness there are sympathetic people like you thrilled about handing over $700 billion helping the kind of CEOs and corporations that are victims of tough times due to the way the middle class have undermined their ability to make money. I heard one corporation has given up 2 of their fleet of private jets and now some corporate big wigs will need to fly on commercial flights. And all this time I had been thinking it was corporate greed.
Tough times indeed. Shame on the working actor who wants a fair wage–nothing more.
How many of these comments are sponsored by the AMPTP? Don’t know? Read them again, it ain’t that hard.
SAG leadership is:
Sharp as a tack!
Dumb as a bag of hammers!
Just like the nation at large. The funny thing is, Hollywood has a blanket “left of Karl Marx” rep, and yet, in this divide, you can see it’s no different from the good ‘ol USA itself.
I take heart in the thought that, like the country, I believe enough of SAG has had enough of the AMPTP’s bullshit. It’s time for a change.
Unionism is under siege. It’s being blamed by the right for the problems of the auto industry, the flight of the manufacturing base, a whole host of complaints.
Will unions need to see what’s reasonable? Of course. Is unionism the problem? Of course not.
Those opposing SAG’s stance are union-haters, pure and simple. They may be members of the union, they may be officers of the union, but they are union-haters just the same.
They refuse to recognize reality: the middle class actor’s back is against the wall. We only want what’s right. What’s fair. Not a penny more.
And yet? The AMPTP has made a decision to crush us. They want to cut our residuals by 50%. They want to allow our images to be tossed around for free, pushing us out of contention for work via overexposure, they want to put nonunion actors into our own contract!
Right now they’re running our work 24/7/365 on Hulu and Veoh and MySpace and paying us zip. The fucking balls!
They want to get OUR costs (rank and file) WAY down. Stars? They get what they want. They’re union members in name only.
Where’s Tom Hanks? With the producers. Why? He’s a producer!
Where’s Mr. “pick moral crusader roles” George Clooney?
He’s taking fistfuls of Advil because his ass hurts so much from fence sitting.
Where’s Cameron Diaz? Getting her fucking hair done. Or advocating for some fucking charity, as long as good p.r. comes with it. She’s not paying that publicist for nothing baby. Smart moves only for Cameron. Publicly advocating, putting your career on the line to fight the good fight on behalf of your rank and file brethren?
“My publicist, agent and lawyers say it’s a bad move.” Hurts the career and all that.
This whole thing disgusts me. What a lack of spine. The UFS people, the NY and regional boards, the merge with AFTRA people, the anti-Membership First-ers? What do they want? They want to cave. “Make the deal. Take what we can get. What idiot will strike in this economy?”
The suits are thieves and liars. Hello? They are not our friends. Hang with them? Be civil? Sure. But understand, when they decide to rip serious cash out of our asses? We have a choice. Allow it. Or fight.
It has zero to do with the economy being good or bad. These guys are hemorrhaging money as we speak. Firing people left and right. Agencies? Who, by the way, support the producers, not the actors they represent? Same thing. “You’re fired.”
Look folks – it’s U.G.L.Y.
It’s officially ugly. Every single person blogging who is NOT a SAG member with skin in this fight? Fuck off. Seriously. Fuck the fuck off. Worry about your own union.
And all the abject rank and file SAG cowards kvelling like hamsters on meth about having to actually stand up for what’s right?
Go find some guts. Or get the fuck out.
There are a lot of good points here, and it’s scary to think everything could shut down again. But Ben, give me a break with the “millionaires want to strike” talk. One could argue that it’s unfair that out of work actors who don’t have as much to lose get to vote on this, but the majority of working actors are not millionaires.
I don’t want a strike anymore than anyone else does, but why is everyone so quick to blame the union here rather than the AMPTP who is unwilling to give on anything? The contract has been up for some time. I don’t think SAG is rushing into this, and I hope it doesn’t come to that, but the point of collective bargaining power is to have some leverage, and it seems the AMPTP once again has no intention of resolving this in a fair way.
I’m a SAG member. I’ll vote “no” on a strike. All my reasons can be found in Cassie’s post.
Trolls on this site, be damned!
SAG should have authorized a strike vote back in May to strike at midnight July 1 — if they had done that, this would all have been over by August.
No actor I know likes what AFTRA did — walking away from the table and doing their own deal. EVERY actor I know will hold that against AFTRA for the foreseeable future and wish there was a way to punish AFTRA. It is a hopeless feeling.
So, note to SAG Negotiating Committee, you won’t get anywhere without at least trying to get a strike authorization from your members. If the membership shoots down the strike, then they will simply be victims of their own choices but you can’t be held responsible for not trying to help them get a better deal.
Do what’s right, wage a campaign as to why would should strike with some foresight arguments as to why it matters and what will happen if a strike is not authorized by 75%. You will have to be overt in explaining to your members why they have to think like businesspeople and not be so short-term in their m.o. Long-terming business strategizing would tell us that we should strike and that this is the best time to do it. But actors have to be given all the logical FORESIGHT reasons why, otherwise you might not get 75%.
I agree with one of the other posts that we (actors) should be watching out for ourselves at this point and everyone else needs to figure out how to work around it — and hopefully support us, because then a strike would be over sooner. There comes a time when you do have to stop trying to please and do what’s right for yourself in order to maintain integrity, health, and sanity. Actors are often to eager to please, and I believe this mentality can roll into the subtext of our negotiating strategies and voting patterns.
The working actor is disappearing. With the working actor going away, you will end up with lots of actors who have fewer opportunities to act regularly (outside of a class or 99-seat theatre project). This reduces the quality of your TV/film actor pool, which reduces the quality of your projects, which reduces the interest in your projects by audiences, which reduces everyone’s income. It is a domino effect that has no upside.
If producers want to make more money, it only stands to reason that they will support a healthy industry. Right now they are not supporting a healthy industry, one that pays for all their perks, and only demonstrating greed.
Hey, Stricter Membership Laws: I hope you were a working actor the day you came out of the womb, because to call all the people that are trying to get their careers going “losers” is a big slap in the face. Go ahead, take the deal the companies have no intention of honoring so you can continue to work 4 days a year as “husband of the victim” on CSI.
Michelle wrote, “My husband works in the entertainment industry, and every Friday we wait anxiously to find out if he will be the next one laid off. Many of his colleagues have been out of work for months or working very minimally.”
You’re unfortunate situation describes the life of a working actor every week. The difference is often we KNOW on Friday we won’t have the job next week.
But please don’t confuse that with being lazy or cavalier. While there are Millionaire Actors, the majority of the working actors are not the STARS on TV or FILM. The majority of us–We are just folks, many like you with families, working every day but only paid on some.
Like many businesses, we take meetings, we go out on sales pitches which we call auditions. We prepare for them, we fight as hard as we can for the job, but in the end only one of us gets that pay day. We send out mailings, we do theater for free with a waiver to remind buyers who we are. But please don’t think the days we don’t get paid that we are not working.
Like a car salesman who gets a commission only on the cars he sells, we only make money when we book a job. If a car salesman makes $500 on a car sale, it’s really not fair to say he is being overly compensated because between 1 and 2pm on Wednesday he made $500-therefore $500 an hour–some would say, “Stop complaining!” right? But they need to see the big picture.
While some sad soles like to make fun of actors and jest that they are lazy or silly or waiters. Well, first I would say there is no shame in being a waiter, and shame on those who mock a person working for a living. Second I would say they really don’t and are not trying to understand the situation.
I think you understand the situation Michelle. We are all in the same boat. And if SAG falls your financial situation will continue to degenerate. These corporations care only about their own money. And while they may be taking it from me today, tomorrow they will urge you to “follow suit with all their other contracts” and you will be forced to take what amounts to a non-living wage.
Capitalism is fine, but only if we as a people–as the majority–don’t let greed overshadow a workers right to a living wage. And that is all SAG is asking.
We’ve seen what the last eight years of, if I may quote Daffy Duck, “Mine, mine, all mine,” has done to our country. That philosophy is the real enemy. That philosophy sends American jobs overseas and then demands Americans except the same reduced wages these corporations are paying in third world countries, crying, “We need to stay competitive” and “why should we pay that here when they will work for a fraction of that there.” And finally they say “accept the contract all of our other workers have accepted.” And they try to trick us into thinking that is a reasonable offer. They make the worker the bad guy–the greedy one–the problem. But we know the truth.
The film industry is uniquely a business that cannot–at least not entirely– be farmed out to foreign countries. The struggles in our industry are the fight for what is left of American jobs. It is important we fight hard because we have to make up for the nothing we have done as we watched many jobs in many other industries shipped overseas. We thought we were helpless.
But recently we looked around and as a people decided “hope” was a word we believed in and the attitude “Yes, we can,” might replace what we have known. I believe it will.
On it’s simplest level SAG’s battle is the battle of what is right and what is wrong. If we ignore that we really are left with nothing and nothing is what we will pass on to out children. And that is the real tragedy.
I’ve worked in post production for the past 12 years. This year, my modest salary was reduced by $10,000 as a result of the WGA strike. They got about the equivalent of $160 extra a month for the next four years. I am left working paycheck to paycheck to support my family. Now SAG is asking for more than the WGA, DGA, IATSE, and AFTRA have already agreed to? This is the most asinine negotiating stance I’ve ever seen. It would be like the UAW going on strike right now as the big 3 are going bankrupt. Everyone is hurting right now. I’ve seen many job cuts to support staff jobs in post production, distribution, hell even studio janitors – they have yet to return since the end of the WGA strike. Taking the same deal the other four major entertainment industry unions already accepted is not weakness, it is the only prudent thing to do. It’s not worth thousands of below the line employees losing their homes and health care for George Clooney to get an extra $300 a month. I hope the SAG rank and file have the courage to recognize this.
Everyone keeps saying “the economy is so bad, SAG would be crazy and stupid to strike”. Ok. Don’t the producers live in the same economy that we do? Wouldn’t a strike hurt them as much as it would hurt actors? Wouldn’t they want to make a deal ASAP if we went on strike? I mean, with the economy so bad and all. Because if that’s not true, then “GASP”- the producers must have more money than they let on. They must be doing better than everyone else. They must be sitting on millions owed to the unions, and already refusing to pay WGA money that’s owed. Besides the 60 million they owe actors. Wake up.
As a working IATSE crew member, I am frankly appalled that SAG is contemplating a strike at this time. This climate of uncertainty has gripped our town for over one year. Few films have been produced, television is in shambles, and our economy is in the tank. For those of us who have to work at least 10 months of the year to support our families, I am sick and tired of being held hostage by Guilds who vast majority of members do not earn their living by working in their chose profession. My husband & I are both members of Property Local 44 and we have been working solidly through these tough times. Sadly, many of our fellow craft workers have not and are losing their homes. So many other states that have tax breaks are draining our jobs out of town. What exactly did the Writer’s win in their 5 month long strike? What do the Actor’s believe they will gain that the Director’s and Writer’s did not? Let’s work together to bring the film & television industry back to Hollywood. It’s time to get back to work!
Really? They want to fight about the pennies they will earn from Hulu.com or other free streaming sites?
If I was a working actor whether it’s in TV or film and have regular paychecks coming in, I could give a rats ass about the “New Media” residuals. What is that going to get me? 1 full tank of gas in my car?
Ok, I just deleted a long, cynical, whiney, tirade about our selfish, shortsighted nature and the damage done to those both deserved
and not.
Then I thought, this is Thanksgiving week and the holidays are upon us. We are not stupid, we know what’s going on in the economy, there is surely some goodwill and sense of fair play remaining and reason will prevail.
Right?
For every negative, potentially hurtful and damaging economic consideration; for each one of you who decries that SAG “bend over, don’t strike and take the deal”; for every one of the ancillary businesses a strike would hurt… The AMPTP also knows these things would happen – and are doing nothing about it. Is it just the Screen Actor’s Guild that’s supposed to shoulder that responsibility (to keep everyone working)?
Still think the AMPTP are the good guys in this?
Sounds like some of you think that it’s okay for management to screw over labor (no matter that their reasons are a complete sham) and that labor should just take what we’re fed and be happy with that. Do you people have any idea why labor unions were created in the first place?
Why aren’t you outraged that our – that YOUR – fat and rich employers are screwing people just like you while they get fatter and richer. Oh, I get it – it’s because “…it’s not my facet of the entertainment puzzle – it’s someone else’s problem. As long as it’s not me getting screwed, then it’s okay with me. Those people over there who are getting screwed ought to keep their mouths shut and be thankful they have jobs at all!” But god forbid it’s you getting your income cut in half. You’d all be screaming “unfair!!!” from every tower in the city! It may not be your problem right now, but are you so blind that you can’t see the writing on the wall? They’re already screwing the WGA (that’s the WGA talking, not SAG.) YOUR UNION IS NEXT!
Have you no spine at all? You’re just sheeple who follow the other weak-minded souls and feel that you have no voice so you must keep your head low, keep your eyes averted, and take and swallow what’s handed down by those who keep you under their thumbs.
The AMPTP spin-meisters have done their job on you. They’re even telling you who to blame. Who’s drinking the Kool-Aid now?
As a final note, everyone please remember that this vote is only for authorization to strike, not for a strike per se. Sure, a strike is much more possible once the negotiating committee has that piece of paper in their hand (and trust me, the AMPTP knows that as well). But it is still a bargaining tool at this point, not a strike, and is intended to get management to take SAG seriously. Which they will, very soon.
A strike is our only weapon against unfair, greedy liars like this. The authorization is the bullets.
We’re loading the weapon…
Don J says: “I could give a rats ass about the “New Media” residuals. What is that going to get me? 1 full tank of gas in my car?”
What is your car an AMC Hornet? The playing field has changed a bit since 1974. It used to be ball bearings, but it’s all New Media these days, Don. But I do dig your retro stance.
It’s really unfortunate how little the work of creative people is valued in America. Regardless to what specific medium one operates in, people don’t want to pay. AMPTP wants to establish a system where SAG members get paid LESS while AMPTP members get paid MORE. The subliminal message: your creative work does not deserve to be compensated. This message is reinforced when AMPTP doesn’t honor WGA New Media payments.
EditorJ, SAG has your interests at heart. Because if the writers aren’t getting paid residuals and if SAG is getting screwed, guess who could be next? Post -Production. It’s consistency of behavior that is the problem here and few people seem to be aware of this. AMPTP is consistently acting in a fashion that isn’t in the interests of everyone involved. The wealth isn’t shared, it’s hoarded. It’s time that creative people stop acting as enablers and take a stand for what is RIGHT.
Rarely should you enter a deal that doesn’t have you long term interests at heart. This is why SAG should not take the deal. The lack of long term planning that is going on in this country is so unfortunate. That’s why the automakers are in trouble and why the economy is in the current situation. Lack of foresight. And then people want to blame somebody or something. Long term planning requires thinking, making discussions, and then accepting responsibility for those actions. Has anyone recently asked themselves how they can proactively position themselves long term considering the current economic situation? I’ll tell you this much, SAG signing a shitty deal that fucks most creative people long term isn’t one of the answers.
“Studios will avoid a strike that get them nothing but another chance to look macho. And after they got their asses handed to them by the writers, I doubt these studio chiefs want to take the chance of being embarrassed again.”
WTH? My sympathy lies with the guilds, but that’s a ridiculous set of statements.
AMPTP was able to get the WGA to drop a key (not to mention a well-publicized) demand (i.e., an increase in home video residuals) in exchange for absolutely nothing. AMPTP was able to get the WGA to drop other publicized demands (i.e., reality and animation) in exchange for absolutely nothing.
“Put yourselves in SAG’s shoes: would you agree to earn about half of your income for the rest of your career?”
Please stop pretending like you’re not going to be negotiating another contract in three years. The hyperbolic representations of AMPTP and the guilds is equally nauseating.
I could respect a SAG strike – if it had a chance in Hell of succeeding. Isn’t the Negotiating Committee just composed of the same members on the Wages and Working Conditions Committee? That doesn’t indicate any great competence in getting a deal – which was a fatal flaw in the WGA’s strike. The WGA strike did result in improvements, except those improvements were clearly not proportional to what was lost as a result of the strike.
SAG leadership needs to clearly articulate the gap between what it wants and what it has been offered. B.S. hyperbole (I suppose that’s an oxymoron) like “We’re fighting for our future” isn’t clear articulation. Continuing hyperbole would be a strong indication that the real value isn’t worth striking over. If the gap (and I mean dollars) is truly that big, spell it out. Don’t do some vague “our future is at stake” dance around it.
Then, if SAG members authorize a strike, SAG needs to hurry up and strike, because a more intense de facto strike just makes existing misery last longer. Don’t wuss around and prolong lingering misery. Strike or don’t strike. Preferably don’t, but just get on with what SAG wants to do so people can get on with their lives instead living in a SAG cloud of indecision.
If SAG strikes, it should stay on strike until it gets what it claims it was striking for. If it winds up taking some half-ass deal (that it will, of course, claim to be historically groundbreaking), that isn’t embarrassing. That’s riot-inducing.
And if SAG intends on handing out strike waivers, save everyone time and just sign the existing offer and drop the strike talk. Waivers achieve nothing. If SAG does it anyway, hold those that sign that waiver deals to them regardless of the (undoubtedly) lesser deal that will be accepted. Actually make those B.S. waivers mean something, instead of the waste of time that they currently are.
Force majeure will certainly be taken advantage of if a SAG strike occurs. Studios and networks will be able to end all of those deals (at least those that haven’t otherwise already ended) that the agents were able to dissuade them from dropping in the WGA strike. It’s never a good idea to give them a second chance to do what they wanted to do the first time.
And that’s not studio or network flack-talk. That’s reality. You know they kept some deals they wanted to toss, but agent intervention saved them. I think Nikki even reported on that. The list of tossable deals has grown since then.
In any case, except for all of the BTL work and the ancillary business and resulting employment that results from it, I wouldn’t mind seeing the HFPA taking another hit on the Globes.
Everyone has valid points in this argument, but as an editor, I must agree somewhat with Editor J. I too have been virtually out of work for 5-6 months (thus far) from all the turmoil of this year’s strikes. I don’t own a house, a BMW, or many other luxuries. And if it weren’t for the generosity of family and friends, I’d still probably be declaring bankruptcy by the time a strike started. It’s going to take me years to financially dig out of the hole created by this years’ upheaval. And yes, those studio cats are greedy bastards. Too bad they’re the ones offering work, and we don’t live in a perfect world where everyone treats one another well. But work is work.
Folks, a strike now would destroy an industry currently in a painful amount of flux and transition. The time to negotiate is in a few years, when everything has hopefully been figured out. Crew, editors, technicians, and professionals of every kind will end up in a mass exodus, spreading across the world in attempts to find work, if not completely changing their careers (in a currently jobless climate).
I realize it’s an emotional issue, and that actors need residuals on this stuff in the long run… I’m not going to call anyone greedy, or make the ignorant statements as some have here that this is going to put money in the BIG talent’s pockets… but work *is* work, and a strike at this point would cripple Hollywood as an industry forever, in ways from which it could probably never recover, and which would also destroy your workbase, as actors. For all our sakes, including yours, I believe actors should wait a few years on a strike. And I really wish you well, and hope there’s a sudden swell in work to tide you over until residuals can be negotiated more properly.
Please don’t strike. I’m encouraged by how many actors on here are saying they’ll vote no. I think that would be best.
“Studios will avoid a strike that get them nothing but another chance to look macho. And after they got their asses handed to them by the writers, I doubt these studio chiefs want to take the chance of being embarrassed again.”
WTH? My sympathy lies with the guilds, but that’s a ridiculous set of statements.
AMPTP said they were ending residuals. Didn’t happen. AMPTP refused to include Internet in this deal. They wound up including it. AMPTP said they’d made a last and final offer. It wasn’t.
Don’t trust me, dude, I’m biased — so go back and look at even the pro-studio publications like Variety, which had no choice in the end but to admit that the WGA won that strike.
Does anyone, on any side of this argument, seriously think that if SAG were to get a strike authorisation the AMPTP lying, cheating slave-traders (oops, showed my colors) wouldn’t be more inclined to actually negotiate? They would have no choice.
That’s what we’re talking about here. Not a strike. A tool for negotiation. A hand of cards. We’ve sent our representatives in there with nothing except a bunch of public back-biting and undermining. Let’s give the enemy a reason to do anything other than laugh at us and dismiss our perfectly reasonable requests.
All those who so recklessly and viciously attack Alan Rosenberg should remember his mandate from the membership – to negotiate a fairer deal for US. That’s right…for us.
We can get ourselves a share, a percentage, of the work that’s both made for and delivered via what will be the sole method of content delivery before long. Or we can lose that forever. Now – only now – will that be established. Not just for us by the way; for the writers, directors and, yes, even for the virtual scabs of AFTRA. Everyone will benefit if we do this right.
I’ll be voting yes in the strongest hope that all of my suffering friends both in and out of the creative guilds will get a fair deal for the work that they do and that the business can put this sordid period behind them.
I wish everyone here railing against SAG (or any of the other unions) for being “greedy” and trying to get “more money” had one shared face so I could slap the shit out of it.
With SAG now and the WGA before, the key issue was never about securing MORE money. It was about stopping the AMPTP from TAKING AWAY money.
Everyone contributes to the product and takes a slice of the profit pie. That’s the deal. The unions didn’t step up and strike or threaten to strike because they wanted a bigger slice of the pie — they acted because the AMPTP came out and said “You know what? Fuck you. You’ll get NO pie and like it.”
If new media truly makes no money and the AMPTP honors the existing paradigm of sharing profits (a tiny, tiny percentage of the profits) with the CREATORS of that media, then it costs the studios NOTHING. Nada. Zip. X% of no profit is fucking ZERO! So what is the sticking point?
The problem is that they ARE making money. Hand over fucking fist. And they’re crowing about it to their shareholders. But they don’t want to SHARE any of it with ANYBODY — like the people who created it.
The unions aren’t striking because everyone wants a new solid gold Hummer in their garage. They’re striking because the AMPTP isn’t content to leave compensation at the current levels. They’re trying to get the same material and make more profit from it while paying less.
So the next time you feel the urge to spout off about the greedy unions trying to pump up their fat cat wages and callously impinging on your hard knock life by striking, do us all a favor — step away from the keyboard and punch yourself square in the nuts, you ignorant douchebag.
STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE!!! It’s about time these greedy studio execs and ceos give up their $ gouging. That’s excatly why this country is in the mess it’s in – because these over-fed pigs get away with pushing their weight around – well if it’s the actors that have to put a stop to it then – SO BE IT!
Anonymous said: How many of these comments are sponsored by the AMPTP? Don’t know? Read them again, it ain’t that hard.
You used that same smear tactic during the WGA strike you brainless lefty. I know it’s hard for you to believe *anyone* could disagree with your sorry arse, but there are professionals in this business who think SAG is behaving worse than spoiled brats and that a strike would be suicide.
STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!!!!
Please strike… we could use the work here in Canada!