Posted on 07/13/2023 11:33:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As SAG-AFTRA prepares to go on strike tonight at midnight and to begin picketing outside studio gates Friday morning, the guild has sent members its strike rules, which order them to “cease rendering all services and performing all work” covered by the TV/Theatrical Contracts.
The “Strike Notice and Order” also says that members “must not cross SAG-AFTRA picket lines,” “must instruct their agent and/or other representatives to discontinue conducting negotiations on their behalf with the studios, streamers and networks for covered services,” and “must inform SAG-AFTRA of all strikebreaking activity.”
The rules note, however, that members “may be able to work on projects produced by non-AMPTP-related production companies under these agreements if such projects qualify for an Interim Agreement.” A list of projects that adhere to an Interim agreement will be posted at sagaftrastrike.org.
See all the rules here.
The guild notes that any member that disregards these orders “shall be subject to discipline consistent with the SAG-AFTRA Constitution and the SAG-AFTRA Membership Rules, including but not limited to Rule 1(A),” which provides that “No member shall render any services, or make an agreement to perform services, for any employer against whom the Union is conducting a strike, nor shall any member otherwise violate any strike order of the Union.”
Work and services specifically prohibited under the rules for the TV/Theatrical Contracts include:
Principal on camera work, such as:
Acting
Singing
Dancing
Performing stunts
Piloting on-camera aircraft
Puppeteering
Performance capture or motion capture work;
Principal off camera work, such as:
ADR/Looping
TV Trailers (promos) and Theatrical Trailers
Voice Acting
Singing
Narration, including audio descriptive services except as the services may be covered by another collective bargaining agreement referred in the Notice to Members Regarding Non-Struck Work
Stunt coordinating and related services
Background work
Stand-in work
Photo and/or body doubles
Fittings, wardrobe tests, and makeup tests
Rehearsals and camera tests
Scanning
Interviews and auditions (including via self-tape)
Promotion of/publicity services for work under the TV/Theatrical Contracts, such as:
Tours
Personal appearances
Interviews
Conventions
Fan expos
Festivals
For your consideration events
Panels
Premieres/screenings
Award shows
Junkets
Podcast appearances
Social media
Studio showcases
Negotiating and/or entering into and/or consenting to:
An agreement to perform covered services in the future
Any new agreement related to merchandising connected to a covered project
The creation and use of digital replicas, including through the reuse of prior work
Performing on a trailer for a struck production or other ancillary content connected to a struck production
Now would be a great time to be a scab and take their acting jobs.
Would people who provide entertainment on YouTube be considered scabs?
The bright side is Alec Baldwin has to stop filming.
Has he been filming? Will he shoot any scabs? How many of his children are scabs?
Can the White Hut go on strike?
Oh gasp......how will we ever survive ????
The Asian TV & movie industry is going to love this. It will give Americans an opportunity to sample some of the stuff not made in Hollywood.
Actors usually don’t make a whole lot on the actual shows, but the real money is in these strike prohibited activities:
Tours
Personal appearances
Interviews
Conventions
Fan expos
Festivals
For your consideration events
Panels
Premieres/screenings
Award shows
Junkets
Podcast appearances
Social media
Studio showcases
I suspect no social media is going to be a problem for the media obsessed stars.
I just saw a Thai business article that noted that a very high end 12 episode production cost $517,000 to make and that included scenes down in Japan.
This is a wonderful development—less woke propaganda will be produced.
I hope the strike goes on forever.
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