Hello and welcome.

My name is John August.

My name is Drew Markquart and this is a script note sidecast, a short episode about one

thing.

Last night, the board of SAG After, the union that represents all of the film and TV actors

in the country, announced that it devoted unanimously to call a strike authorization vote

ahead of the negotiations with the AMP TTP.

So Drew, let's talk about what that means and what impact that might have on the ongoing

writer's strike.

I mean, I feel like we should start with was this expected because going back to the

second sidecast.

It was pretty clear that WGA had a history of calling for a strike authorization vote

because they did it as like in 2017, exactly.

So not only does the WGA have a history of calling for a strike authorization vote,

we actually do go on strike.

So there was a strike in 2007 in 1988, many times before that.

The actress went on strike in 1960 and then again in 1980 and they've also had strikes on

commercials, which is a different contract.

I suppose to film a TV, but it's fair to say that there's not the same history of SAG

after going on strike and there's not the same precedent for taking a strike authorization

vote.

Right.

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