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    Hollywood actors poised to strike after SAG-AFTRA contract expires with no deal

    by Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times Jul 13, 2023 4 minutes
    Members of SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors and other media professionals, may go on strike by 11:59 p.m. today which could shut down Hollywood productions completely with the writers in the third month of their strike against Hollywood studios.

    LOS ANGELES — The union representing Hollywood actors is poised to strike and join writers on picket lines in back-to-back walkouts for the first time since 1960, widening the labor conflict that has roiled the film and TV industry.

    Despite the involvement of a federal mediator who was brought in at the eleventh hour to help resolve the conflict, groups representing the actors and the studios were unable to agree to a new film and TV contract before a Wednesday night deadline.

    By an overwhelming the union's members previously authorized their leaders to call a strike if they could not secure

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