This ‘We Mean Business’ series explores the connections between law and business, examining how they interact and impact workers. This series was originally hosted and produced by Mackenzie Joy Brennan, a lawyer and Cronkite graduate student.
SAG-AFTRA is still striking against the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – movie studios, big streaming corporations, etc.) even as the writer’s union has reached its own agreement with the studios this week. In this episode, Mackenzie Joy-Brennan talked to SAG member Marie Cecile Anderson — an actor, comedian, and musician based in Nashville — about the strike decision, the demands union members are asking for, and what life is like as a working union actor, even while on strike.
As the entertainment industry strikes continue, Mackenzie Joy-Brennan has a chat with Hollywood costume designer Nicole Suerez Jones whose local IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) unions aren’t on strike, but are still suffering the effects of the current dual strikes in Hollywood. Nicole talks studio executive greed, working conditions, artificial intelligence, and what it means to be functioning in an industry that appears to be at an impasse.
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