(14 Jul 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York, 14 July 2023
1. Various of SAG-AFTRA members in New York picketing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Preston, actor/SAG member:
“We're here representing 160,000 members of our union. And in my mind, we're all the same. We're all the same and we're all here fighting for better residuals in the streaming era. We're fighting to protect ourselves against A.I. We're fighting for pension and health increases. And, you know, three years ago, our contracts were up and we very graciously agreed to continue under the same contracts in the hopes that three years later, which is now, producers would come to us in good faith and we would make the changes that have been needing to happen since really the beginning of the digital boom. And unfortunately, that didn't happen. So that's where we are and that's why I'm here.”
3. Medium Carrie Preston on the picket line
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Preston, actor/SAG member:
“We're not getting any data from the producers about how many people are watching these hit shows, and therefore it's not being calculated how much money we should get. A little piece of the pie is all we're asking for. It's all the writers are asking for. And for some reason, that is not being met.”
5. Medium Carrie Preston on the picket line
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Preston, actor/SAG member:
“Look, only about—there are there maybe 2% of people that can that in the union that can sustain their livelihood through acting. Everybody else has to have other jobs. I spent many, many years having to have other jobs going on, unemployment between gigs. And so we're here because we would like to fight for the entire union. We're fighting for all of us to be able to pay our rent, feed our kids, send our kids to college, have a decent and dignified income and living.”
7. Wide of SAG-AFTRA members in New York picketing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Potter, SAG-AFTRA national board:
“Every three years when this contract comes up for renegotiation, they know the story and the fact that they are unwilling to bargain in good faith, bargain fairly, bargain with transparency and bargain and goodwill so that actors, performers, dancers, singers and recording artists can earn a living wage is despicable. The fact that they say they want to eviscerate the Writers Guild so that the writers lose their housing, their apartments, their homes, are destitute and have to come crawling back to the table, is literally one of the most despicable, unfair, unconscionable kinds of approaches to collective bargaining that I've ever heard.”
10. SAG-AFTRA members in New York picketing
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nachayka Vanterpool, actor/SAG member:
“I came because I've been in SAG and it's just time for a change, and our contracts ended and we're in the front lines of the things that are being filmed and we're not getting compensated. We've been striking with the writers and just to hear things like we're going to starve the writers out, if that's the kind of people that are on the other end of these contracts, whose starves our families and people? So we're out here to make a difference and stand up for what's right for living wages for our lives.”
12. SAG-AFTRA members call-and-response chanting, “If we don’t get it, shut it down.”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nachayka Vanterpool, actor/SAG member:
14. Wide of SAG-AFTRA members in New York picketing
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Carellini, actor/SAG member:
16. Medium Carrie Preston on the picket line
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Nachayka Vanterpool was also on the picket line in New York.






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