SAG and the Actors Strike

[Dream]

After 27 hours of round-the-clock meetings, talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have again broken down, and SAG will now seek a strike authorization from its members.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50754

Here we go again. The writers strike killed off a bunch of shows and it looks like the actors strike will kill off some more. I don't see the actors getting much support from the public considering how this will cause thousands of people to lose their jobs during a time when the economy is so bad. Who knows how long this will go this time?

 

[Jax]

Won't get the 75 % vote because of troubled times plus the vote won't be done till Feb at the earliest.

 

[wamdue]

Won't get the 75 % vote because of troubled times plus the vote won't be done till Feb at the earliest.

yes I dont think it will happen either, and how can it take so long to do it?

 

[TGTheodore]

The current economic crap is the best thing that could ever have happened to the producers.

Skinflints.

--Ted

 

[ALF]

[Sigh.]
Time to start reading again.

 

[Jax]

Won't get the 75 % vote because of troubled times plus the vote won't be done till Feb at the earliest.

yes I dont think it will happen either, and how can it take so long to do it?

For a strike to happen, SAG's 120,000 members would have to vote, with 75 percent approving -- a process that could take until at least mid-January if it were to start right away. However, a vote likely wouldn't begin until the end of the year, meaning a strike authorization likely wouldn't come until early February.

 

[KB24]

I don't know the details yet, but what sucks the most about these strikes are the poor commercial actor folks not getting million dollar paychecks, just like the low end writers who were getting the short stick. Of course we have no love for these big wig asses, but again its the little people and viewers that will be screwed. We shall see. NBC has already put down a few shows.

 

[Jax]

Why don't the actors wait to strikke to delay the beginning of the fall in 2009 rather than in the middle of a season, for one it will piss people off less.

After missing 100 days last year, I do not and will not support the actors strike in the middle of this season and so far alot of people in and out the industry feel the same. Hell even the actors are unsure so I doubt they will get the 75%.

 

[Siwilliams]

Perhaps if the strike goes through, Pushing Daisies and Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be saved again

 

[wamdue]

I think the seasons would be longer this time around than they were last time around, however you might not get to make as many new episodes after the strike as you did last time.

Still I dont see why the SAG will need to strike, first off obviously they need the 75% to say they will strike, but then its just a case of digging out old copies of Variety etc, to remind everyone of the where the WGA had done to the industry, and I would hope both sides can make a deal with all that in mind.

I dont think it will save any axed shows, it might save some on the bubble shows, when you think about it, its a bleeding mircale BigBangTheory will survive both strikes, so young.

 

[Siwilliams]

I dont think it will save any axed shows

I think it could, especially if mid season shows only have 6 or 8 or so episodes

 

[wamdue]

I dont think it will save any axed shows

I think it could, especially if mid season shows only have 6 or 8 or so episodes

we will have to wait & see, that is if we even have a strike, I think all the SAG needs to do is show willingness to strike, (or possibly strike for one day) and the two sides were learn from history (WGA strike) and a deal will be done.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

I don't believe they'll get the 75 percent approval they need. The memory of the last strike is too fresh and the economy too damned shaky. It's not as if it's going to magically heal the second Obama is sworn in. It'll take months if not years. The only way all three guilds will ever get what they really want, and get a generous portion of residuals from new media, is if they all strike together and truly shut down everything. Until that happens, these strikes are pretty much stop gap and useless.

 

[wamdue]

It's not as if it's going to magically heal the second Obama is sworn in. It'll take months if not years.

this is news to me

note to self: Obama not the second coming of Jesus



Seriously now, if it doesn't get the 75% vote it needs, its members will have given it a much weaker negotiating position, the SAG does not have to strike, but it HAS to approval the idea of a strike.

If they dont they will either get the WGA deal (which apparntly they dont want) or less than the WGA deal.

 

[LeadHead]

Somebody told me that 99 percent of actors are unemployed at all times. If this holds true, than there's your 75 %. That 99 percent wants to be paid really well when they are employed so that they can live off of that employment for longer.

I hope it really doesn't happen though. I hope they agree to some 1 or 2 year deal to put this on the backburner until the economy is such that this wouldn't be a huge mistake.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

If it happens, it won't last for more than a week, tops.

 

[Jax]

Somebody told me that 99 percent of actors are unemployed at all times. If this holds true, than there's your 75 %. That 99 percent wants to be paid really well when they are employed so that they can live off of that employment for longer.

Problem is, 98% of that 99% can't act and should stop trying to tell themselves that they are actors

 

[wamdue]

Somebody told me that 99 percent of actors are unemployed at all times. If this holds true, than there's your 75 %. That 99 percent wants to be paid really well when they are employed so that they can live off of that employment for longer.

Problem is, 98% of that 99% can't act and should stop trying to tell themselves that they are actors

doesn't matter if they can act or not, the important part is that they have had work in the past and are part of the SAG

is the Daily Show, a SAG show?

 

[Jax]

Somebody told me that 99 percent of actors are unemployed at all times. If this holds true, than there's your 75 %. That 99 percent wants to be paid really well when they are employed so that they can live off of that employment for longer.

Problem is, 98% of that 99% can't act and should stop trying to tell themselves that they are actors

doesn't matter if they can act or not, the important part is that they have had work in the past and are part of the SAG

is the Daily Show, a SAG show?

Not a clue but seriously the actors want more money but if they strike there won't be any money to come back for...

Global credit crunch
Had a 100 day writers within the last year
Ratings are down all across the board
CBS and NBC are pratically up for sale with the CW on its knees
Cable companies have a tight budget already
Movie-wise you might be able to get a bump but not in TV.

 

[wamdue]

Ill agree with them doing ok with movies, its where the big names are, which is the part of SAG the studios are bothered about, TV is more important simply because there is so much of it, and its more likely people will watch it online.

theCW yeah that is all trouble, despite some growth, cant see CBS closing down anytime soon, its probaly the best TV channel at the moment, ABC a close second.