UPDATED: Lawmakers are weighing in on the strike called by SAG-AFTRA, scheduled to start on Friday just after midnight.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in a video posted to social media, “I want you to know I stand with you. This is personal for me. So many of my constituents, so many actors and stunt performers, so many voiceover artists and broadcast journalists, you’re my friends and you’re my neighbors, and what’s more, your fight is the fight for workers all over the country. This is the fight to make the economy work for people again. The industry is very profitable, and you should share in those profits.” He said that he would join picket lines “yelling through that bullhorn. I’ll be supporting you until you get a deal that you have earned.”
Shortly after SAG-AFTRA officials held a press conference on Thursday to announce the strike, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) tweeted, “Workers should share in the profits they help create. With studios raking in billions each year, it’s unacceptable SAG-AFTRA members are struggling to get by. I stand with the thousands going on strike and urge studios to make a fair deal.”
Schiff and Porter, each running to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), also backed the writers in their walkout in May, along with another Democratic rival, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA).
The White House has not yet commented on the SAG-AFTRA strike. After Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially declined to wade in on the WGA strike, President Joe Biden did, telling a gathering at the White House in May, when he called for writers to get “a fair deal they deserve as soon as possible.”
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