A week ago, tens of thousands of actors joined 11,000 writers in a nationwide strike across the United States, against some of the most powerful media corporations in the world. Meanwhile, UPS workers and autoworkers are also gearing up for battle. Contracts for 340,000 UPS workers expire at the end of this month, and for thousands of “Big Three” autoworkers at Ford, GM and Stellantis in September.
Below is a roundup of video comments from actors and writers, UPS workers and autoworkers that appeared on the World Socialist Web Site in the last week. All of these videos can also be found on our Youtube channel.
Ethan, writer, New York City
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“For the writers and actors, whatever you call it—AI automation, ‘deep fake’ CGI technology—where they’re resurrecting dead actors, it’s an insane thing. It’s got to be a minimum in every contract that you can’t just replace people that are in the union with a computer program.
“Hopefully [this fight] will spread to other industries and other unions. It’s a major strike wave around the country right now. So if either or both the actors and writers got a good contract, that would be a good thing for our brother unions. I know the UPS workers are about to go on strike.”
Jack, actor, Los Angeles
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