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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 guild's history) [9] 1987 1987 Directors Strike
At the time, SAG and AFTRA represented a total of approximately 135,000 actors who were paid US$720 million in 1999 for their work in the advertising industry. [2] However, the average SAG member was making less than $7,000 per year despite having to pay many related costs out of pocket, and most SAG members had other jobs that provided the majority of their income.
Other segments of the actors union have gone on strike too, including several long standoffs over the TV commercials contract. A 2016-2017 strike by the union's video game voice actors lasted a ...
The 1980 actors strike involved the combined efforts of SAG and AFTRA. [18] The largest SAG-AFTRA strike since 1980 occurred in 2000, in which commercial actors went on strike to push for a continuation of the residual system against advertiser backlash, amidst the divisions between SAG and AFTRA. [19]
Other performers, including commercial actors, interactive entertainment and video games, and audiobook voice artists, will be unaffected. Another exception is HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series ...
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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.
Hollywood actors have reached a tentative agreement with the major film and television studios to end a strike that shuttered production across the industry since July 14 and raised existential ...