Everything You Need to Know About the SAG Strike

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On Thursday, months after the Writers Guild of America went on strike in May, Hollywood’s actors union, SAG-AFTRA, announced that its members will join screenwriters on the picket line.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher did not mince words as she made the announcement Thursday.

“We are the victims here,” Drescher said. “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. ... How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when they’re giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment.”

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