Allison Miller Instagram – We outside. I’ve been a SAG-AFTRA member for 17 years and have watched my residuals dwindle away with the rise of streaming services. I was a “recurring guest star” in 12 of 13 episodes of a very popular show on a very popular streaming service and walked away essentially losing money from every episode I worked. At the time, I fought for a slight raise considering how much work I was putting in. (12 pages of memorized legal jargon a day, traveling out of town for every episode) and the response was “We can’t do that, but we hope she’s having fun!” 🤬 And forget about ever seeing a residual from that project. This is my livelihood! I don’t need it to be fun, I need it to pay my bills!
A decade ago, residuals enabled me to survive years of unemployment due to health issues and helped me keep insurance to be able to treat those health issues. Now? There’s no way that would happen. I have been so fortunate to work so much over the last seventeen years but I’m scared of what the future holds without huge systemic change within the industry and its treatment of anyone below the 1% wealth bubble.
This effects all of us. The brand of billionaire capitalism that is creating a greater gap between the middle class and the oligarchs running EVERY industry is disgraceful. As @dmgproductions put it so succinctly “I thought FDR fixed this…”
I’m not even broaching the topic of AI because it’s too preposterous to wrap my puny human artist brain around. So now, we’re out here.
At least Judy is “having fun!” #sagaftrastrong #wgastrong #fairpayforlaborers | Posted on 19/Jul/2023 01:53:58
