stage, television, and screen actors have been famously unionized for decades, and the screen actors guild just resolved a messy contract dispute with producers.

not to derail your point or anything, lisa, but we have yet to vote on the contract. and i can tell you that a large percentage of sag actors are not happy w/the contract negotiations. this “messy contract dispute” that has been “resolved” provides little to no (literally) compensation for work shown on the internet, and many actors fear that this will become the distribution system of choice for programming in the very near future (read: next year). so all our pay, as well as our funding for pension and health benefits, will be reduced by around 80-90%.

i know many actors that are planning to vote ‘no’ on the contract.