105 - Strike Chatter: SAG-AFTRA negotiations

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Jesse Lumen

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week Audrey Moore talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and Ray Rodriguez about the SAG-AFTRA negotiations. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is the national executive director and chief negotiator of SAG-AFTRA. He's had over two decades with our union. Ray Rodriguez is the chief contracts officer for SAG-AFTRA and has served as either lead negotiator or seceond chair at ALL major negotiations since taking on his role at the merged union.

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0:00.0	Hi, Audrey. It's Alex Andrea Delgado in Los Angeles. I just wanted you to know I was just a ticket line
0:06.5	this morning at Paramount. This has been my like 12 ticket and the strike started. I went by myself
0:14.0	to Sony on like the first day of the Ryder Strike and was so nervous as an actor and everybody was so
0:22.0	lovely and it was so easy and they provided time and shirt and you get to talk to such incredible
0:29.2	people who have had such incredible careers. It's such an amazing community. I just can't say how
0:36.0	much I've loved the experience of picking in and supporting each other in this union and even the
0:42.4	non-union people that come. I feel like if there's shaving balls when they're like, oh I'm non-union.
0:47.1	I'm like, oh my god, you're amazing and everybody's so welcoming and I just can't encourage people
0:52.1	enough to just like go pick it. It's great for community. It's great for getting to know people.
0:58.4	It's great to just support something that's important and if that goes on strike, we should be out
1:04.8	there more often than we currently are. Can't wait to see you guys on the ticket line. Bye.
1:09.4	Hi, everybody. This is Audrey Moore with the Audrey Helps Actors podcast. This is episode 105
1:15.1	strike chatter with SAG after negotiators. This is a really important episode. I wanted to make
1:21.5	sure that everyone had a close understanding of what is currently happening right now as our
1:27.1	negotiating team is in their negotiating on our behalf. We have today Duncan Crap Tree Ireland
1:32.6	and Ray Rodriguez. These two fine gentlemen. I'm very passionate about getting everyone to understand
1:39.5	that first of all, you are the union and the union is you. People often talk about the union as
1:44.5	this thing that is sort of other. Like there's this group of magical people somewhere making decisions
1:50.9	on our behalf and I want to be very clear that that's not what is occurring. The union is made up
1:56.3	of two factions, the membership. So that's all of us working all of the contracts that SAG after
2:02.5	includes. Then there's the staff. This is staff that SAG after his membership hires through our
2:09.6	dues, through all of that, to be on staff. So when we're talking about who's going into negotiations,
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