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The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was a labor strike between actors in the labor union SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP. The strike began at midnight PDT on July 14, 2023, after the SAG-AFTRA's national board of directors held a vote approving the strike. The strike marks the first time that actors have initiated a labor dispute since the 1980 actors strike.
2023 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike: 118 days [1] 2023 2023 Writers Guild of America strike: 148 days [2] [3] 2007-08 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike: 99 days [4] [5] [6] 2000 2000 Commercial Actors strike: 182 days [7] 1988 1988 Commercial Actors Strike 25 days [8] 1988 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: 154 days (the longest strike in the ...
As the Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach the 100-day milestone of the work stoppage, here is a timeline of the key events, pivotal …
On April 18, 2023, 97.85% of members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to go on strike if they failed to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents the major film and television studios in Hollywood, by May 1. [31]
Such votes are actually common with Hollywood unions, taking place every time a new three-year contract is negotiated, though they don't normally come at the end of a prolonged strike.
1981: A 96-day strike results in the landmark contract that for the first time guarantees writers a share of producer revenues from the fast-growing pay-TV and home video markets. The strike idles ...
Along with the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike (which ended on September 27, 2023), [4] it was part of a series of broader Hollywood labor disputes. Both the 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes contributed to the biggest interruption to the American film and television industries since the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 just three ...
In Hollywood, the term "mini-room" describes the increasingly common practice of using a small core of writers to shepherd a show along while hiring other writers for a handful of weeks at a time.