Angelique Jackson SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher had a sobering message for Hollywood’s major studios as she joined a WGA picket line outside Paramount Pictures on Monday afternoon. “They feel like this strike is a strike for everybody in the industry,” Drescher said of SAG-AFTRA members and the WGA’s labor action.
Drescher, who was elected SAG-AFTRA president in September 2021, marched arm in arm with Writers Guild of America West president Meredith Stiehm in a show of solidarity, joining a coalition of a few hundred members from each guild who were picketing outside Paramount starting at 9 a.m.
PT as week two of the WGA strike began. “It’s important that we support our sister unions in the entertainment industry,” Drescher told Variety, emphasizing that she’s both a labor leader, in her role as SAG-AFTRA president, as well as a WGA member. “We have to be in solidarity with them.
That’s the only way that the labor can effectively stand up for itself and be recognized for what our needs are,” Drescher said.
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