Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Transportation Workers Rally With Striking Actors At NBCU In Manhattan
03.10.2023 - 22:57
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This is Day 83 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
The language was salty but the mood was upbeat at a union rally in Midtown Manhattan by striking actors and their supporters from the 150,000-member Transportation Workers Union.
With talks between the actors union and the production studios paused until Wednesday, the crowd at SAG-AFTRA’s solidarity picket with the TWU filled two lanes of the street outside NBCUniversal headquarters and made a sometimes NSFW din that could be heard for blocks.
Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, one of the rally speakers, dropped an F-bomb in remarks calling for all working Americans to receive a livable wage and health care. “And since our corrupt Congress won’t give that to us, we got a f*ckin’ union,” he said to cheers.
But it was TWU chief John Samuelson who really let fly, railing at “p*ick bosses” in a pugilistic speech that compared contract negotiations to fist fighting.
“And this is how you win a fight,” Samuelson said. “You keep throwing punches viciously, relentlessly, endlessly until you land one that decks the boss. That’s how you do it.”
SPOTTED: Stephen Lang, Jill Hennessy, Megan Boone among demonstrators at the SAG-AFTRA/Transport Workers Union rally in NYC today #SAGAFTRAStrong
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