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For the past decade, the SAG-AFTRA, or the Screen
entertainment industry has seen a Actors Guild-American
growing number of actors’ unions Federation of Television and
and guilds in the United States, Radio Artists, is a union that
demanding better wages, benefits, seeks to increase legal
and workplace conditions for the protections for pre-recorded
many individuals they represent. and live performances of its
On June 21, 2020, the United members, as well as to
States’ largest actors’ union, SAG- provide fair wages and union-
AFTRA, announced their intention based benefits like health
to go on strike in order to fight for insurance, pension plans, and
progress towards these goals. residual payments.
