The idea of yet another labor strike in Hollywood, so soon after the seemingly endless writer’s strike, isn’t appealing to much of anyone. And yet, the Screen Actors Guild is encouraging its members to vote against a contract accepted by another actors guild, AFTRA. With the strike deadline of June 30 looming, The Hollywood Reporter says that Tom Hanks is lending his high-profile status to trying to get this show on the road.
Hanks signed an e-mail message, along with 100 other actors, encouraging SAG to go ahead and accept AFTRA’s contract. Other signees who aren’t A-list movie stars include Jeffrey Tambor (a.k.a. Papa Bluth from Arrested Development) and James Cromwell (a.k.a. the farmer from Babe, Prince Philip from The Queen, and other people in about a million other movies). The e-mail says, in part, “We are voting yes because if this contract doesn't pass, it will set us back to a place from which we may not recover.” What that place is isn’t exactly clear in the article, and is probably even fuzzier given that the contract negotiations thus far have been shrouded in secrecy.
All I can really say is thank you, Tom Hanks, for trying to bring some reconciliation into a situation that seems to have gotten out of hand. As a complete outsider I have to ask, if one union can come to an agreement, why not another? And, even more importantly, why has seemingly no one learned from the writer’s strike? After the money and goodwill lost in that strike, you would think the actors would be avoiding a similar fate. Unfortunately, if no one listens to Forrest Gump, we may be headed for another work stoppage and even more hard feelings
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SHAME ON YOU "TOM HANKS"... In Bed with the Producers because you Produce.. What a Shameful Person you are to tell people to vote yes for the AFTRA deal... The AFTRA deal is TERRIBLE for the ACTOR. Why have a UNION like AFTRA?? WHY? AFTRA is a Terrible Union who has always slept with Producers. I was a PRINCIPAL on the Berny Mac Show ergo AFTRA Show... AFTRA has a SWEETHEART deal with Producers of that show and guess what my day rate was?? $378.00 - WTF!!! Your WAY out of line... Stop being an Actor Tom and go over to the other side where you belong... You don't have the guts to answer me on this subject because you have NO F'N clue what an actors life is all about... Suck on your Millions and F' the people trying to make a living in the real world..
LET's BE REAL... The AFTRA deal SUCKS!!! It gives away money... And WOW ... 3% raise to the Background Performers... ohhhh what a deal?!?! WTF .... Take your head out of your A-hole Tom and come up for air... Your living in a dream world if you think that the AFTRA deal is a good deal for the ACTORS... FU!!!
VOTE NO PEOPLE and SHAME ON YOU if you DON'T VOTE NO!!
VOTE NO
CastingYou.com supports the true actor~~ They are advertising people to vote NO!! Have sum balls Tom and come down to earth.. Or do you have the balls to do it?
SAG is working on a FAIR deal for the actors. AFTRA signed a deal that basically allows the big companies (networks, studios, distributors, etc) to reap all of the income that should be more evenly divided amongst everyone involved in making this industry what it is (including the actors and the writers). It's a shame that union politics have blinded AFTRA from what their goal should be - which is to protect their actors. It is a blessing that SAG is dedicated to the ideals of fairness and the livelihood of it's members. Actors like Tom Hanks are not in touch with industry minimums. Union contracts do not matter to people like him because he will always create his own contracts - he is a celebrity and he has the power to do so. A work stoppable could cancel his next big movie, while a strike that results in bettering working conditions for "regular actors" would do nothing for him. So it's no wonder he votes "yes" on the AFTRA deal... he has no reason not to. But I assure you, the rest of us "little people" do. God Bless SAG.
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The idea of yet another labor strike in Hollywood, so soon after the seemingly endless writer’s strike, isn’t appealing to much of anyone. And yet, the Screen Actors Guild is encouraging its members to vote against a contract accepted by another actors guild, AFTRA. With the strike deadline of June 30 looming, The Hollywood Reporter says that Tom Hanks is lending his high-profile status to trying to get this show on the road.
June 27th, 2008 at 15:26
SHAME ON YOU "TOM HANKS"... In Bed with the Producers because you Produce.. What a Shameful Person you are to tell people to vote yes for the AFTRA deal... The AFTRA deal is TERRIBLE for the ACTOR. Why have a UNION like AFTRA?? WHY? AFTRA is a Terrible Union who has always slept with Producers. I was a PRINCIPAL on the Berny Mac Show ergo AFTRA Show... AFTRA has a SWEETHEART deal with Producers of that show and guess what my day rate was?? $378.00 - WTF!!! Your WAY out of line... Stop being an Actor Tom and go over to the other side where you belong... You don't have the guts to answer me on this subject because you have NO F'N clue what an actors life is all about... Suck on your Millions and F' the people trying to make a living in the real world..
LET's BE REAL... The AFTRA deal SUCKS!!! It gives away money... And WOW ... 3% raise to the Background Performers... ohhhh what a deal?!?! WTF .... Take your head out of your A-hole Tom and come up for air... Your living in a dream world if you think that the AFTRA deal is a good deal for the ACTORS... FU!!!
VOTE NO PEOPLE and SHAME ON YOU if you DON'T VOTE NO!!
VOTE NO
CastingYou.com supports the true actor~~ They are advertising people to vote NO!! Have sum balls Tom and come down to earth.. Or do you have the balls to do it?