Picketing is set to begin Friday morning.
Discovery remains unwilling to offer a fair deal on the key issues that are essential to SAG-AFTRA members.
SAG-AFTRAs National Board will vote Thursday morning on whether to strike.
SAG-AFTRA
The companies have refused to meaningfully engage on some topics and on others completely stonewalled us.
Until they do negotiate in good faith, we cannot begin to reach a deal.
The board will discuss the issue this morning and will make its decision.
Thats not how you treat a valued, respected partner and essential contributor.
The studios and streamers have underestimated our members resolve, as they are about to fully discover.
This is the Unions choice, not ours.
The Writers Guilds strike, meanwhile, is now entering its 73rd day with no end in sight.
Soap operas, whichfall under a separate contract, are exempted.
This provision applies worldwide.
We need to reverse those trajectories.
Drescher returned to Los Angeles in time for the last two days of bargaining.
SAG-AFTRA explained that Drescher was working as a brand ambassador for Dolce and Gabbana on location in Italy.
This was a commitment fully known to the negotiating committee.
She has been in negotiations every day either in person or via videoconference.
Self-taped auditions, meanwhile, are unregulated and out of control, the guild said.
