UPDATED with newest anticipated attendees: SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles Local and the Writers Guild of America will maintain a “National Day of Solidarity” rally Tuesday outdoors Disney Studios.
“SAG-AFTRA and WGA will join forces with the AFL-CIO and its affiliates from across the nation and across industries for a National Day of Solidarity,” SAG-AFTRA mentioned in an announcement. “In this ‘Summer of Strikes,’ working Americans everywhere are fighting for fair contracts, better compensation, safe working conditions and protections from encroaching technology. Together, we are showing corporate America that when we fight, we win!”
SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July 14, and the Writers Guild since May 2. The rally will begin Tuesday at 10 am PT.
Among these scheduled to talk on the rally embrace SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Yvonne Wheeler.
Others scheduled to attend embrace writer-director Aaron Sorkin and fellow The West Wing alums Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Bradley Whitford, Josh Malina, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack and Kathleen York; WGA West board member Liz Alper; Directors Guild of America Secretary-Treasurer Paris Barclay; SAG-AFTRA Executive Vice President Ben Whitehair; Teamsters Local 399 chief govt officer Lindsay Dougherty; Laborers Local 724 Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer Alex Aguilar Jr.; American Federation of Musicians Local 47 President Stephanie O’Keefe; Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony; and actors Kerry Washington and Sean Astin.
Crabtree-Ireland informed reporters final week that “we remain very eager to get back to the table with the AMPTP, as we’ve said every day” for the reason that actors’ strike started. “We have been ready, willing and able to continue bargaining with them and we very much want the AMPTP to come back to the table.”
SAG-AFTRA has mentioned that key points in its strike embrace “economic fairness, residuals, regulating the use of artificial intelligence and alleviating the burdens of the industry-wide shift to self-taping.”
The WGA, after 4 straight days of bargaining final week, will resume negotiations this week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. It’s chief strike points embrace pay raises, viewership-based streaming residuals, the “preservation of the writers’ room” by means of minimal staffing and assured days of employment, and guardrails towards the usage of synthetic intelligence to write down scripts.