Srs bzness

I hope for the sake of my friends that work within the entertainment industry that an actor's strike doesn't happen. Part of the reason I left LA was the damaging effect the Writer's strike had on my financial situation (among so many other reasons) but I have a lot of people I care about still living and working within that industry that will be affected by another strike.

SAG has a petition that you can sign if you're a member. Look at the list of people who already have.

Dear SAG members,

Support your negotiating team! We continue to bargain with the AMPTP daily. Our goal is to reach a fair contract for television programs and motion pictures and improve your wages and working conditions.

You can show your support by signing on to the solidarity statement below by emailing Contract2008@sag.org with your name and SAG membership number (NOT your social security number!).

Once we receive your email, we’ll add your name to the growing list of Screen Actor Guild members who have pledged to stand together in support of these critical negotiations.

Please visit sag.org for daily updates.

WE SUPPORT SCREEN ACTORS GUILD

Screen Actors Guild continues to bargain for a fair contract. And we are not finished. We believe that there are issues that are at the heart of every actor’s career that remain unresolved by AFTRA.

• Significant increases: Minimums, schedule and money breaks, pension and health contributions, increases for background actors, stunt performers, mileage reimbursements and major role premiums.
• Residuals for all new media.
• NO non-union new media productions.
• Protections from Product Integration abuses.
• Reasonable Residual increase payments for DVDs.
• Preserve Force Majeure protections

We believe AFTRA should go back to the bargaining table, with SAG, and fight for a better contract.

Our Screen Actors Guild negotiating team is working 24/7 to get a fair contract for 120,000 SAG members.

WE SUPPORT OUR SAG NEGOTIATORS

Patricia Arquette Rosanna Arquette Ed Asner Scott Bakula Anita Barone Bonnie Bartlett Justine Bateman David Berman Susan Blakely Eric Bogosian Joe Bologna Tom Bower Josh Brolin Keith Carradine Dixie Carter Seymour Cassel Dave Clennon George Coe Bill Daniels Laura Dern Michael Dorn Anne Dudek Frances Fisher Joely Fisher Kate Flannery Jorja Fox Willie Garson

Matthew Glave Sharon Gless Elliott Gould Paul Guilfoyle Louis Gossett Jr. Ed Harris Robert Hays John Heard Marg Helgenberger David Huddleston Holly Hunter Anne Jeffrys Anne-Marie Johnson Lainie Kazan Heather Paige Kent Diane Ladd Beth Littleford Ron Livingston Tony Lo Bianco Kent McCord Amy Madigan David Marciano Debi Mazar Anne Meara Viggo Mortensen Matt Mulhern Laraine Newman Jack Nicholson Nick Nolte

Edward James Olmos Leland Orser William Petersen Emily Procter Lily Rains Anne Ramsay Jeremy Ratchford Adam Rodriguez Alan Rosenberg Alan Ruck Rob Schneider Martin Sheen Nancy Sinatra Brooke Smith Harry Dean Stanton Connie Stevens Ben Stiller George Takei Regina Taylor Renee Taylor Lea Thompson Mark Totty Jeanne Tripplehorn Lisa Ann Walter Chandra Wilson Rainn Wilson Scott Wilson Alicia Witt

To sign on, email Contract2008@sag.org with your name and SAG membership number (NOT your social security number!).

FEEL FREE TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE SAG MEMBERS

On a shallower note, I don't know if the entertainment industry on a whole could weather another strike so soon after the last one, and I'm sure episodic television couldn't. I DON'T WANT TO LOSE EVEN MORE TV TIME. I want my Fall TV!!