SAG-AFTRA Podcast With AFL-CIO President Looks To Future Of Labor Movement
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA is celebrating the upcoming Labor Day weekend with a podcast featuring Liz Shuler, president of the 12.5 million-member AFL-CIO, which represents 57 affiliated unions, including SAG-AFTRA, and workers in every ZIP code in the country.According to Shuler, the future of organized labor is bright.“We are stronger together,” Shuler said on the podcast. “By being an affiliate union of the AFL-CIO, it brings the full breadth and scope and power of 12.5 million working people to each other’s fights.
And SAG-AFTRA is on the front lines of so much. A lot of people think, ‘Oh, well, SAG-AFTRA, are they really workers?’ Well, of course, because you work in an industry like Hollywood, or you are someone in broadcast, you absolutely have the same issues that working people in other professions have: safety and health concerns, discrimination and harassment concerns, and making sure you’re being paid equitably for your work.“So, what that means is we get to bring the voices and solidarity of more people together to support each other in those fights.
And I think of the work that you (SAG-AFTRA) did during the pandemic, for example, being on the front lines of creating safety standards that the rest of us could learn from.
So that’s just one small example of what we do to help each other. And it’s a great example of how we show up for each other.”You can hear the podcast, co-hosted by SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and SAG-AFTRA Executive Vice President Ben Whitehair, here.“And I think in every industry, where there’s workers and management,” Crabtree-Ireland said, “there’s always a need to balance out the power of management.
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