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Conflicting reports from industry trades and SAG-AFTRA show that Hollywood is at a breaking point.

The industry will finally learn whether Hollywood will see its first "double strike" in six decades some time Wednesday or early Thursday morning.

As strike talk in Hollywood heats up, entertainment industry publications like Variety and Deadline are running multiple stories about the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, DGA, and the AMPTP every day. And, as a result of aggregating such articles, so are many other sites, including io9. But many of the trades’ sources have their own agendas when it comes to the results of negotiations and the possibility of multiple industry strikes occurring at once. That can lead to conflicting reports.

In a joint statement today, unions IATSE, Teamsters, the DGA, and the WGA East and West extended "unwavering support and solidarity" with SAG-AFTRA.

Instead of appealing to other sections of the working class in common struggle against the major studios and their Wall Street owners, the union bureaucracies are releasing empty statements of “solidarity” while appealing to rapacious studios for a “fair” agreement.

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SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and the WGA are among the groups standing in solidarity with the DGA as the guild enters its final scheduled week of negotiations with the…

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and the WGA are among the groups standing in solidarity with the DGA

COVID-19 Safety Agreement and its related protocols will expire on May 11, 2023

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