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Year Strike Duration 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
A crowd of WGA and SAG-AFTRA members strike in Los Angeles on June 21, 2023.. The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike had a significant impact on the film and television industries of the United States, causing many film and television projects to shut down or postpone production.
In July, The New York Times predicted that with the actor's union joining, "viewers are likely to notice the effects of the dual walkouts more broadly within the next couple of months". [11] Both labor disputes have caused the largest interruption to the American film and television industries since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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]
A crowd of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members striking in Los Angeles on June 21, 2023.. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike had a significant impact on the film and television industries of the United States, causing many film and television projects to shut down or postpone production.
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is a labor union that represents approximately 160,000 media professionals and entertainers. [14]
2023 Cape Town taxi strike;; 2023 Irn-Bru strike; [29] [30]; 2023 Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital strike; [31] [32]; 2023 Sogo & Seibu strike - strike at the flagship Seibu Department Store in Tokyo in protest over the store's sale to the American Fortress Investment Group, representing the first strike at a major department store in Japan in over 60 years; [33]
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio in 1884. Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace, contributing to the general public good, undermining the power of lobbyists, career politicians, and economic illiterate tools like Robert Reich.