SAG-AFTRA’s New Leaders Talking Tough About 2023 Film & TV Contract Negotiations: “We Mean Business!”

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Negotiations for a new SAG-AFTRA film and TV contract won’t get underway until 2023, but the union’s newly elected leaders already are vowing to take a tough stand at the bargaining table.“I intend to build up the perception of SAG-AFTRA as one of power and strength to the envy of our industry peers and reservation of our employers,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher told members in the latest issue of the union’s magazine. “Only if we take a stand and commit to the things that matter, do we have influence both in D.C.

and at the negotiating table.”Drescher, who plans “to propose a PSA Pandemic Exit Strategy education program” in conjunction with the White House, said that greater bargaining power can be achieved by engaging star power and