2023-07-17 00:08:09
Updated Monday, July 17, 2023 – 00:08
The new good public image of the unions works in favor of the workers.
protesters at the entrance to Paramount.CHRIS PIZZELLHistorical strike Actors paralyze Hollywood What does the strike mean? His favorite series, in doubt
George Clooney, Margot Robbie, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Rosario Dawson and Brian Cox are some of the actors who have supported orally or with a sign in hand the strikes of actors and screenwriters demanding new collective agreements in their relations with film, television and streaming production companies in the United States. Their names explain how negotiation has changed, at least from a symbolic perspective. Where the writers’ strike (called since May) had gone more or less unnoticed, the actors’ fight is impossible to ignore.
The strikers also play their cards and announce that they they are in no hurry to reach an agreement lower your expectations. Brian Cox, the Succession actor, said this weekend on Sky News that he does not expect the strikes to end before the end of the year. It is a situation that could become very, unpleasant. And it could last quite a long time. They will push us to the limit and we will have to be prepared to go to the limit. This situation may not be resolved until the end of the year.
160,000 actors affiliated with the SAG-AFTRA union and 11,500 writers members of the Writers Guild of America have joined the industry’s biggest strike in 60 years. Their main claims have to do with the collection of copyrights for reissues on video platforms and with the demand for regulations that protect human employment from the irruption of Artificial Intelligence.
What works in favor of actors and screenwriters so that they challenge their employers in this way? Basically, the state of american public opinion, which is changing their perception of labor claims. A Gallup Institute poll last summer found that 68 percent of those polled sympathized with unions. It hadn’t been this high in 60 years. Low unemployment rates and recent union successes at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have led to a change of cycle in which workers are the ones who are at the forefront. an unusual position of strength for decades.
Against them, as in all strikes, time can go by: if the strike lasts, the actors will receive pressure from professionals linked to cinema and television: their weaker colleagues, sent to unemployment by someone else’s strike.
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