Is it over yet? Despite fierce opposition from high-profile members, the Screen Actors Guild is still expected to send out ballots for a controversial strike vote on or after Jan. 14. Two factions have quickly emerged:
A-listers like George Clooney and Tom Hanks are urging members to sign a Vote No petition, while celebs like Mel Gibson and Holly Hunter are arguing that colleagues should walk off the job if need be. (Seventy-five percent of paid-up members must authorize a strike before the national board can actually call for one to take place.) SAG, which has been working without a contract since June, and the studio conglomerates remain at odds over DVD residuals and compensation for new-media extras like TV webisodes.
Jan 9
2009
09:15 PM ET
SAG strike vote: As the date approaches, actors take sides
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Gulp. The writer’s strike ended tv’s renaissance, and left us with an awful fall season in ’07, and an only halfway decent one in ’08.
I hope the powers that be and the SAG folks realize that a strike doesn’t just affect their bottom line, it also has serious pop culture implications.
Any preliminary percentages on if this is going to pass or not?
*sigh*
I think, EP, the effect on pop culture is part of SAG’s bargaining tool if a strike were authorized.
75% of SAG members or 75% of VOTING SAG members to authorize the strike? Meaning, if only 1000 members of SAG voted and 750 voted to strike, it would be authorized, even if 50,000 other members (or whatever) didn’t vote at all.
Although we all respect the work of all the actors in Hollywood, striking would not only hurt TV viewers but all of the people that rely on tv/film production to survive, ie the other hundreds of people who actually make the show happen. I think during such economic turmoil striking would not only be selfish but stupid.
Here we go again. I stopped watching TV as much since the other strike. Another one will push me over the edge to say the heck with TV and movies…I’m watching Fox News from now on!
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I used to work in the film biz, and my husband still does, & we both have many friends who do also. I saw firsthand the way the Writers strike effected the lives of the people who work in that industry. The economy now is worse than ever and the industry never has fully recovered from that strike, a strike now would be devastating to many people that extends further than the film business. I hope if you are a SAG member you think of everyone who might lose houses etc. because of a strike.
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