Week 25 of Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast comes at a difficult time regarding negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the studios. No formal talks have taken place or even been planned since October 11, when negotiations were suspended during the latest standoff.
The fight has led to a group of high-profile actors including George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson offering to end the fight with a plan in which Hollywood’s biggest earners foot the bill for the AMPTP signatories. financed by abolishing the cap. on membership contributions to be used to improve health care services and other areas that SAG-AFTRA wishes to support. The union has since stated that the offer is welcome but not feasible.
In the midst of it all, Strike Talk host Billy Ray is joined this week by Steve Schmidt, founder of The warning Newsletter, YouTube channel and podcast as well as political commentator and strategist. The pair explore the economic roots of America’s current upheaval, exploring why trust in institutions is at an all-time low, the isolating effect of technology, and how the ongoing strike by actors fits into the larger American labor movement.
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Source: Deadline
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