SAG-AFTRA Members, Including Yvette Nicole Brown, Make Picket Signs Ahead of Possible Strike

As its negotiations with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) continues, the Display screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is emphasizing that it’s able to go on strike if a deal isn’t met by the deadline on Thursday, July 13.

On Friday, July 7, the union posted Twitter photographs of members making “SAG-AFTRA on Strike!” picket indicators. “If a strike turns into needed, we’re prepared,” SAG-AFTRA’s Twitter caption reads.

If a strike turns into needed, we’re prepared. pic.twitter.com/62kUzNId4e

— SAG-AFTRA (@sagaftra) July 8, 2023

SAG-AFTRA additionally shared a TikTok video of the picket signal manufacturing with the identical caption on Friday, and Neighborhood alum Yvette Nicole Brown, a SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Board member, will be seen chipping in.

“Know this, we will be prepared if a deal isn’t made,” Brown tweeted on Saturday, July 8, sharing SAG-AFTRA’s Twitter submit. “This isn’t a sport. EVERYONE who works on this trade — above and under the road — ought to be paid what they deserve.”

@sagaftra

If a strike turns into needed, we’re prepared. #SAGAFTRAstrong #sagaftramembers

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If SAG-AFTRA and its 160,000 members do on strike, it’ll be the primary movie and TV actor walkout since 1980, when the then-separate SAG and AFTRA organizations went on strike for greater than three months over contract phrases for pay TV and video cassettes, Deadline stories.

And because the WGA strike continues, a SAG-AFTRA strike would convey Hollywood’s first simultaneous strike by actors and writers in additional than 60 years, in response to Selection.

On June 5, SAG-AFTRA members approved a attainable strike by way of vote, with practically 98 % of voters approving the plan.

“The upcoming TV/Theatrical negotiations will decide whether or not our members working in movie, tv, and streaming can proceed incomes knowledgeable residing doing the job they love,” SAG-AFTRA stated on its web site.

Particularly, the union has expressed concern round residuals, healthcare and retirement profit plans, use of synthetic intelligence, and the observe of self-tape auditions.

On June 30, SAG-AFTRA stated that it and AMPTP would “proceed to barter below a mutually agreed upon media blackout” however would lengthen the TV/Theatrical contracts to 11:59 p.m. PT on Wednesday, July 12.