More and more of the youth is gravitating to the internet (look at us!) for entertainment. I think SAG has a duty to take care of their members, but part of that involves making sure their industry continues to thrive. They shouldn't go on strike. The writers went on strike, and I know many of them who had to pull their children out of preschool because they were out of work for literally months; and the writers didn't even get much out of that negotiation either.


The movie industry needs to play their cards right, or else they'll end up like the music industry!
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Yes, The Screen Actors guild should strike if they feel they have been wronged in anyway. Artist Guilds and unions are the only way for working class people in a capitalist society to voice their concerns and protect themselves against abusive employers. The big wigs at the top of the entertainment industry are earning millions of dollars off of the true creative work done by the true artists of SAG. Artists must always unite if they want their voices heard.
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No. It looks like they won't get the 70% from the acting members to be able to approve the strike authorization anyways.

Right now, everyone is hurting because very few studios are willing to start new projects if they think that SAG will strike in the middle. They would loose too much money... so instead, only a few people are working, SAG isn't making their point, and everyone is suffering. Mr. Rosenberg, what are you doing and why is it taking you so long?!?

Now isn't the time to be greedy. They should take the same deal that all the other unions took. Think about this: if they get a better deal than everyone else, what will keep other unions from striking to get the same deal? It could go on forever. It's time to fire Alan Rosenberg!
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We must look to Mel Gibson, who will clearly be asking himself, "What would Jesus do?" As the answer is unhelpful, and potentially distracting, he will likely need to resort to a coin flip or eenie-meenie-minie-mo-ology.

-HumblePieman
Source(s):
Lethal Weapons 1-4 & Braveheart.

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dont really care, unions suck and are the reason most companies have to charge so much for their products. not to mention all of our infrastructure that takes forever to get anything done. roads bridges
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No! the writers strike was not particularly successful, I think there are better ways to negotiate than striking. Also I will be out of a job if they can't make movies for me to show...
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I would say no. While a strike would hardly affect the pocketbooks of Tom Hanks or Mel Gibson, it would be disaster for many SAG actors who are just getting by with small parts in movies while bussing tables at night.
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No. We just had a writers strike that practically killed entertainment, and now the economy is in the toliet. Its the worst possible time also to negotiate, as everything is in a state of fear. Wait till the market is bit more upbeat.
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Definately it is the perfect thing to do with the current economic situation. The auto workers and aircraft workers should do it also.
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Yes. They should go on strike and stay on strike forever.

Acting is not a skill, it's just "pretending". If you've ever played a practical joke on someone and been successful in fooling them, you are a more skilled actor than Tom Cruise. There is no reason someone should make hundred of millions of dollars per year for pretending.

There are a few specialized skilled (faking accents) that some people can do better than others. Most films do not call for these skills. Most films call for the simple kind of acting that we all do in our everyday lives. Let professional acting disappear as a profession and let directors hire non actors for the roles. Plenty of good films are made this way (Paranoid Park for example).
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yes. because we need more innovation, like we got out of the writer's strike.

projects like www.watchtheguild.com/ and http://drhorrible.com/ owe their existence to the WGA strike. Imagine what we could get out of an SAG strike!
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Can the majority of Hollywood's non A-list actors even AFFORD to go on strike right now? To strike during this recession is ludicrous...I'm not saying that their demands and rights are not important, but simply that one should make sure that they can feed themselves for the next few months before they go on strike!
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