Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence and More SAG Actors Threaten to Strike: Report
etonline.com, more than 300 members of the Screen Actors Guild, including Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence, are threatening to strike should an agreement on a new contract with major Hollywood studios, streamers, and production companies not be reached.The letter, addressed to the SAG-AFTRA Leadership and Negotiating Committee was allegedly sent to leadership expressing their concern with the idea that «SAG-AFTRA members may be ready to make sacrifices that leadership is not.»«We hope you’ve heard the message from us: This is an unprecedented inflection point in our industry, and what might be considered a good deal in any other years is simply not enough,» the letter, obtained by , says. «We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade.
We need to reverse those trajectories.»In addition to Streep and Lawrence, other A-listers who signed off on the letter include, Rami Malek, Quinta Brunson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, Neil Patrick Harris, Amy Schumer, and Amy Poehler.SAG-AFTRA declined to comment on the matter.The letter comes after it was reported earlier this month that members of SAG-AFTRA have voted to authorize a strike if their negotiating committee doesn't reach an agreement on the new contract by June 30.
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher released a video message this week with an update on the negotiations, telling members, «We are having an [sic] extremely productive negotiations that are laser-focused on all of the crucial issues you told us are most important to you.
We're standing strong and we are going to achieve a seminal deal.»Just days away from the June 30 deadline, everyone who signed the letter says they’re «prepared to.
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