SAG-AFTRA strike nears 3-month mark
The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios resumed bargaining talks on Wednesday. It's a sign of progress as the strike nears the three-month mark. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston reports.
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Talks resume amid SAG-AFTRA strike
SAG-AFTRA union members have been on the picket lines since mid-July and as talks resume with executives, striking actors continue to push for better pay and artificial intelligence protections. Jennifer Van Dyck, a SAG-AFTRA member, joins CBS News with the latest details on the negotiations.
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Late night talk shows are coming back after Hollywood writers agreed to a new contract and ended their strike, but actors are still on the picket lines and several more strikes appear imminent this week. Culinary workers in Las Vegas appear set to walk off the job and some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are planning to strike on Wednesday. Elise Preston takes a look at the rise in labor actions.
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SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios resumed negotiations Monday, a week after the WGA reached a deal to end their strike. Meanwhile, the auto workers strike is now in its third week, but the UAW was able to reach an agreement with Mack Trucks to narrowly avoid a work stoppage for 4,000 other workers. Lauren Kaori Gurley, a labor reporter for The Washington Post, joined CBS News to discuss the labor movements.
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In Hollywood, leaders of the Writers Guild of America are expected to approve a new contract Tuesday after months on strike. The deal will still need to be ratified by the union's members, but the strike could officially end before that happens. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston reports from Los Angeles.
Where SAG-AFTRA stands after WGA deal
Nearly five months after hitting picket lines, the writers of the WGA have a tentative agreement in place with Hollywood studios that union negotiators call "exceptional." CBS News correspondent Elise Preston has more on when the writers could return to work and the state of SAG-AFTRA's work stoppage.
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More than four-and-a-half months after they first went on strike, Hollywood writers have reached a tentative deal with studios on a new labor contract. Reed Alexander, an entertainment business correspondent for Insider, joined CBS News to discuss the deal and what it could mean for the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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After months of failed negotiations, the actors and writers guild strikes are no closer to resolve and the economic impact for many of the out-of-work writers and actors is intensifying. Several Hollywood organizations have been helping to provide support during this time with grants mostly going toward rent and mortgages. Alex Rubin, writer and co-head of Pay Up Hollywood, joined CBS News to discuss the situation.
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