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xenadd · 1 year ago

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Our inability to sympathy strike is thanks to Thatcher. Everyone say thanks, Thatcher.

I’m just going to say this here so people aren’t concerned.

I am a writer and actor. I am based in the UK and Ireland.

We are not currently striking.

We are being affected by the strikes, there’s certainly not as many jobs around, but we aren’t striking.

If I take a UK-production company job, I am not scabbing.

We have different unions. There are actors represented by both Equity and SAG-AFTRA, but I am not one of them.

(I’m actually not even in Equity yet, I’ve only just earned enough to be accepted and I can’t afford the membership fee at this moment)

We are not allowed to strike in the UK. We have terrible anti-strike laws. We are also being screwed over a lot, but I’m hoping if WGA and SAG-AFTRA succeed we might get some trickle down help.

It’d be totally different if I took an American based job, which I won’t because I want the writers and actors to break the big studios.

Support the strikes, but please remember not everyone is American.

#I am a costumier in the uk #obviously we’re not Striking bc Uk and also we are under bectu #however there is no work #I finished a job just a few days before the SAG-aftra strike started #and if you were not already on a job at that point or locked in on a British production starting soon #you are not getting a job any time seen #soon*#per bectu three thirds of the industry is out of work #with no sign of when things will start #I was meant to pick some dailies through aug-oct on two us produced shows (one Netflix one apple) and they shut down #I didn’t have a confirmed start date but I had a pencilled preliminary prep job expected for oct/nov which is just Indefinitely postponed #quote unquote British productions ARE being pushed back to next year and have been for a while #even tho technically they could absolutely go ahead with prep #but everything single thing is a waiting game #people who have been put on hiatus mid-production have #literally zero information about when they’ll go back #absolutely nothing #there is fuck all #I had a three months planned sabbatical and I’m in my last month of that and I am WORRIED #bc we don’t know how long this will go on for #and we also don’t know how tightly the industry is going to retract #I’ve been talking for years about this inevitable tipping point and everyone o worked with told me I was just being anxious and ridiculous #but I mean #here we are #also add: things suck for us. we cannot get the crews that we need #on my last job our head tailor injured herself bc she was so overstretched and she had to be laid off for 2 months #I’m owed 200+ hours of overtime that was just wiped from my time sheet and I was promised in lieu and you never get in lieu bc there is no #time and not enough bodies #until APRIL OF THIS YEAR (2023) all costume crew were expected to work an Hour For Free every single day -#it used to be more - and bectu finally got an agreement this year that that would no longer be the case

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