Another strike looms...

Last winter was the writers. Will this winter be the screen actors?

The Screen Actors Guild has been working without a contract (with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) since the end of June. After months of on-again, off-again talks, they are pushing for a strike vote.

There is a really good piece about it in the LA Times. Basically, it all amounts to one big, bad idea. What SAG is asking for is unrealistic, and more than the writers got last winter. It is hard times economically for pretty much everyone at the moment, big studios included. The strike seems to be a divisive issue within SAG, with many A-listers and others voicing their opposition. Plain and simple: a strike may not get them anywhere and it will halt productions and put people out of work at a time when no one can afford for that to happen.

However, if SAG should vote to strike, ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists) will support them. Read about that here. Frankly, if their demands seem unreasonable and they aren't really "fighting the good fight" so-to-speak, wouldn't it be foolish on our part not to embrace all that business headed North?

The dollar is down, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.