Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Fran Drescher Hits NYC & Silversun Pickups Perform Outside Disney As Focus Turns To NBCUniversal Picket Tomorrow
deadline.comThis is Day 94 of the WGA strike and Day 21 of the SAG-AFTRA strike SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher joined striking actors and writers in New York on Thursday morning, telling picketers outside Paramount headquarters in Times Square that her union won’t agree to any deal with film and television studios that leaves members unable to make a living.
Two days after she testified about the strike at a New York City Council hearing, the Queens native rallied fellow union members with a promise to stay true to their demands once negotiations resume with the AMPTP. “I’m so thrilled to see this level of enthusiasm and resolve and strength, and I promise you that we are not going to compromise,” The Nanny star said. “This is a seminal deal and there is no turning back.
At some point you have to say we’ve had enough: We’re not going to get marginalized out of our livelihoods anymore and you have to step up on the plate and do right by workers.
This is our moment.” Drescher also visited a combined SAG-AFTRA and WGA picket line outside of Netflix offices in Manhattan’s Flatiron district.
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