’s dubbing industry workers staged a protracted strike demanding higher wages, less frenzied work conditions and protection against artificial intelligence.
Cut to the present day. Italian unions representing the country’s film and TV industry workers are at “a very critical, almost historic juncture” in a broader labor dispute with the country’s motion picture association ANICA and other industry trade orgs, according to Sabina Di Marco, leader of SLC CGIL, the biggest union at the bargaining table.
ANICA chief Francesco Rutelli declined to be interviewed for this article citing the fact that the negotiations are in a delicate phase, his spokesman said. “It’s very useful for our cause that American actors, as well as writers, are raising some really significant issues,” said Di Marco, who added that the SAG-AFTRA strike “is like a collective awakening for our sector.”