Could There Really Be Another Strike This Year?

I think I’m going to be sick…

Just as TV still struggles to recover from the Writers’ Strike, we get even worse news. There could be an Actors’ Strike.

Yes, you read that correctly…

According to “The Hollywood Reporter,” the Screen Actors Guild leadership has begun preparations for a strike-authorization vote. This move comes after two days of meetings with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers failed to produce an agreement.

It takes 75% of SAG’s voting members to approve a strike. There’s no word on a timeframe for the strike authorization vote.

SAG President Alan Rosenberg said that if a strike is authorized, that does not mean an immediate strike, but the AMPTP says that if the members approve it, then a strike “is all but guaranteed because SAG has shown no willingness to compromise on its unrealistic demands.”

YIKES!

Before these last rounds of talks, the two sides had not met since July when SAG’s counter-
proposal was rejected by the studios. The AMPTP has said repeatedly that it will not give SAG a better deal than it gave the WGA, DGA or AFTRA.

Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail here or we may be looking at the end of network television as we know it since I don’t know how the networks could recover from a second work stoppage in a year…

In fact, I don’t know how I could recover…