This is Day 129 ofthe WGA strikeand Day 56 of theSAG-AFTRA strike.
A similar bill passed the Assembly in 2019 but failed in the Senate by two votes.
Unfortunately, we cant do that.
WGA & SAG-AFTRA picket line in New York, Penn Badgley, strikers dressed as Barbie and Harry Potter join the picket line outside Warner Bros. StudiosSean Piccoli/Deadline/Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/David Livingston/Getty Images
People on strike cant do that in California.
They can in New York.
Our sister union in the East is able to do that.
It is time because unemployment insurance is here for people who are ready, willing and able to work.
That is what we want.
We want to go back to work.
It is our employers who are preventing that.
SB 799, he said, would effect a significant imbalance thats currently within our collective bargaining structure.
As it is right now, the employers use this as a tool.
They use this as part of their strategy, to impact us and to hurt us during negotiations.
You earned these benefits and you deserve to have them.
television writer Sasha Stewart exclaimed.
We are all literally feeling the effects of global warming right now.
This is a worldwide crisis and it should be all over our culture, Stewart said of global warming.
But we have been limited by what the studios will allow.
I want to hear from the people in Lahaina and Maui recovering their communities.
Theyre literally cutting down trees to cut down worker power.
It does not get more on-the-nose than that.
