The guild said that it will now work “toward the protection of the reality performers” and “engage in a new path to union coverage.”
community where people would see themselves on these large streaming sites and wonder why they aren’t receiving compensation for that.”sent a letter to NBCUniversal
last week promising a day of reckoning for the company. Freedman alleged in his letter that NBCU is guilty of misconduct against reality TV performers, including exploiting minors for free labor, withholding mental health treatment from TV stars, and deliberately destabilizing reality stars by supplying them with excessive amounts of alcohol.
SAG-AFTRA said in its statement on Thursday: “We stand ready to assist Bethenny Frankel, Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos along with reality performers and our members in the fight. [We] are tired of studios and production companies trying to circumvent the Union in order to exploit the talent that they rely upon to make their product.”
Reality shows are still in production in the midst of the ongoing strikes because they are covered under the SAG-AFTRA Network Code, which presently only covers reality hosts, and is not part of the guild’s strike against films and scripted TV series. A new Network Code contract was ratified last summer for work on reality shows, soap operas, and talk shows, and that contract
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