SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher slams studios when announcing actors’ strike: ‘Shame on them’

During a speech on Thursday announcing that the actors in SAG-AFTRA would go on strike, union president Fran Drescher slammed the studios, saying they “plead poverty” while paying high salaries to their executives. “It is disgusting. Shame on them,” she said.

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FRAN DRESCHER: And so, it came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads. But we had no choice. We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.

I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty that they're losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs.

It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment. We stand in solidarity, in unprecedented unity, our Union and our sister Unions and the Unions around the world are standing by us as well as other Labor Unions. Because at some point, the jig is up. You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored.