To:
The Industry (aka Suits, Ad Monkeys,
Greaseballs)
From:
National Board of Directors of SAG and AFTRA
Re:
Why we're still on strike
Agreements
reached: Smoked gouda to be included on bargaining
table cheese tray.
Demands
not yet satisfied:
- Head
shots must be increased 10 percent, to 8.8" x 11".
- Wassssuuup?
will now count as 10 lines, rather than a sound effect.
- Double-scale
for saying, Its not Head and Shoulders.
Its new and improved Head and Shoulders.
- Lower
burden of proof for "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"
to reasonable doubt it's not butter.
- Adequate
compensation for auditions in which casting director
says, What the hell was I thinking? What
the hell were you thinking? or Okay, send
your daughter in.
- Complimentary
dried smoked pig ear on set at all times (Taco Bell
Chihuahua only).
- Overhaul
of voice-over pay structure. For some reason, under
the current system, 50 percent of wages are automatically
garnished to James Earl Jones.
- No
more use of the word garnished during contract
talks. Most of us have to say that enough during the
dinner shift.
- Option
to cold cock any director who, during cereal commercial
shoot, utters the phrase, I need a little more
Adam Sandler.
- We
will not, under any circumstances, share a dressing
room with an animated character.
- The
right to sing show tunes on the picket line, even after
the strike is settled.
- Additional
employer contributions to union health plan for coverage
of collagen and St. John's Wort.
- Option
to say, I'm Tim, I'll be your waiter this evening,
and I'm seeking representation. Even if we are
not seeking representation.
- Twenty
percent over scale if script calls for use of invented
adjectives such as lemonrific or minivantastic.
(This item is non-negotiablicious.)
- No
cracks about Charlton Heston's hairpiece, in support
of our union brothers in Local 796 Artificial
Turf Layers.
- You break
the strike, you bought the strike.
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