It was a Hot Labor Summer turned Fair Deal Fall, and the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles membership showed up! During the 2023 TV/Theatrical/Streaming strike, L.A. held seven consistent picket lines daily with the help of member strike volunteers and staff. Representation from several different categories flooded the lines, and members embraced theme days through special pickets. A feeling of solidarity and member engagement is as high as ever!
Top photo: The cast, writers and crew for the NCIS universe join the Paramount picket lines on Aug. 2.
Thousands of picketers flood the streets at the inaugural Universal picket on Aug. 4. Photo by Jack E. Herman.
SAG-AFTRA dancers leap across the picket lines at Warner Bros. on Aug. 10.
After the picket lines or on their day off, members came to SAG-AFTRA headquarters to help restock inventory by making picket signs.
Staff member Lubka Jacobs, left, and SAG-AFTRA member Jamie Lee Curtis replenish signs for the strike lines at SAG-AFTRA headquarters. Curtis volunteered many hours helping with supplies for the picket lines during the duration of the strike.
The Producers Guild of America and the cast and writers of 'Parks and Recreation' picket at Amazon on Aug. 11 in support of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA.
The SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee along with thousands of other members and allies join the AFL-CIO National Day of Solidarity at Disney Studios on Aug. 22.
SAG-AFTRA L.A. Local Board member, Young Performers Committee Co-Chair and strike captain Jillian Clare poses with SAG-AFTRA L.A. Local member Ellie Grace Pomeroy at the young performers special picket at Warner Bros. on Aug. 23.
L.A. Local Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee Vice Chair Sarah Scott, left, and SAG-AFTRA member Jules Willcox join the Survivors Support the Strike picket in support of sexual harassment prevention in the industry at Fox on Aug. 31.
Hundreds of members from the SAG-AFTRA background community joined the Fox picket lines on Sept. 12.
From left, SAG-AFTRA Organizer Derron Ware, L.A. Local Board member Frances Fisher, L.A. Local First Vice President Sheryl Lee Ralph and L.A. Local President Jodi Long lead the crowd of thousands in the L.A. Solidarity March and Rally from Netflix to Paramount Studios on Sept. 13, 2023.
From left, strike captains Nancy Daly, Terry Wilkerson, L.A. Local Board member and strike captain Jillian Clare, and strike captains Cheyenne Perez and Madonna Cacciatore attend a strike volunteer mixer with other staff and members at Sassafras Saloon on Oct. 5.
Picketers from all lines joined the Disney Studios picket line for extended hours on Oct. 16 for the Mousetrap Picket. This picket was held outside of Disney’s 100th year anniversary celebration.
Negotiating Committee member Jason George shows love for the strike captains on Instagram Live during Captains’ Appreciation Day on Oct. 19.
87-year-old SAG-AFTRA member Earl Jones walks the Sony picket almost every day.
Members of SAG-AFTRA join the line, dancing at Paramount on Oct. 26 for the Hip Hop Alliance solidarity picket.
Picketing with parents became a regular event on the picket lines. These amazing mothers dressed their children up and brought them to the Warner Bros. line on Halloween.
SAG-AFTRA member and Ralph Morgan Award honoree Jackie Joseph, left, and former SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer Amy Aquino join Disney Unity Day on Nov. 1, which marked 111 days on strike for SAG-AFTRA.
SAG-AFTRA member and DJ Evan Shafran keeps the crowd pumped at the Netflix picket line.
SAG-AFTRA members who are alumni of historically Black universities or a part of one of the original nine Black fraternities or sororities on the picket lines at Amazon, Nov. 7.
Ostrow, TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee member Nicole Cyrille, Disney strike captain Elyssa Phillips and TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee member and L.A. Local Board member Caitlin Dulany.
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