International Acting Guilds Proceed With Caution Over Potential SAG-AFTRA Strike
deadline.comWith the news that SAG/AMPTP negotiations could push into next week, international acting unions are for the most part taking a cautious approach to supporting a potential actors strike.
Unlike writers guilds around the world, which came out in support of the WGA’s labor action prior to it being called, unions in English-speaking countries are being conservative.
With more than 1,000 actors now urging SAG-AFTRA’s leadership to take a tough line in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television (AMPTP), and talks on a knife edge, questions have arisen over how other nations might respond and what guidance local actors will receive around working on projects from ‘struck’ U.S.
companies. Canadian actors guild ACTRA declined comment beyond saying the strike “has not yet happened and is currently speculative,” while the Brussels-based International Federation of Actors (FIA) had nothing to say with just two days to go before the first deadline runs down.
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