Actors, writers and SAG-AFTRA members on a picket line. (Image courtesy: AFP)
Hundreds of US leisure employees rallied outdoors the New York headquarters of Amazon and HBO on Tuesday in a National Day of Solidarity with the strike that has shut down Hollywood. Waving placards and chanting by means of megaphones, the demonstrators vowed to proceed the economic motion that has introduced America’s leisure trade to a standstill since May till their calls for are met.
“The movement has not stopped, the movement has only grown,” mentioned Ezra Knight, president of the New York department of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, including: “We’re still here, we’re still fighting.”
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) walked out in May, and had been joined on the picket strains by the far bigger Screen Actors Guild final month.
The twin actions have halted movie and TV manufacturing and compelled a postponement of the Emmy Awards.
The unions are demanding higher pay, ensures to restrict using synthetic intelligence, and different improved working situations.
The WGA introduced earlier this month that it was returning to the collective bargaining desk after studios requested a gathering to discover methods to finish its strike.
The WGA mentioned it had accepted a request to fulfill with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which incorporates studios like Disney and Netflix.
“(That) means there may be hope, for us, too, because it means the AMPTP has started to rethink things, and come to the table with an idea and a bargain,” mentioned Knight.
Actress Laura Houha mentioned she hoped to have been again at work by now. “Hopefully the loud sounds that we’re making are being heard by the powers that be and they’re seeing that there’s more of us than there are of them,” mentioned the 34-year-old.
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