SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher & WGA Negotiating Committee co-chair Chris Keyser posted Labor Day messages for their union members.
With Labor Day Weekend seen as the unofficial end of the summer season and thoughts turning to the Halloween season and beyond, the television & film industry is still in serious shutdown mode as the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes roll on. And when will that end? When the AMPTP gets its act together and negotiates a respectful deal with the unions – or studios start breaking off to strike their own deals.
Let me start by thanking the Guild staff – everyone who works at the Guild. They are labor, too. And they have dedicated their working lives to the cause of writers and writing. Over the course of this year, they have given everything they have for us. And everything we will one day gain, we owe, in large part, to them.
What we promise you is this – as you have stood with us, we will stand with you one day, when it is your turn. That is how labor gets its due. For all its costs, it is the only way. To the lot coordinators and the incredible corps of strike captains – and to every individual member of this Guild – you are marvels. You are models of what dignity means. Everything that has made you writers: your sense of humor, your sense of responsibility to the world, your sensitivity to the plight of others, your conscience, your courage, your ability to persevere through obstacle after obstacle – all these things, you bring to this fight. And they have served you well.
These things must be resolved. And not with contract language that has a one-to-one ratio of promises to loopholes. Truly resolved.
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