Hollywood’s High-Stakes Strike: Actors and Writers Make History With Bid to Reshape Industry

On July 13,, led by president Fran Drescher, called the union’s first strike against film and television companies in 43 years.

Combined with Hollywood writers’ ongoing strike, the work stoppage — applying to 160,000 members, from actors to singers to dancers — marks the first simultaneous strike by the two unions since 1960, in a sign of an industry in tumult.

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