CHICAGO — When mid-July rolls around, Chicago-based and raised actor Amy Morton typically starts work on a new, 22-episode season of the long-running NBC series “Chicago P.D.,” on which she plays the zero-nonsense Sgt. Trudy Platt.
But this is no typical mid-July. Earlier this summer, an overwhelming majority of members of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA unions, representing primarily small- and large-screen actors and the writers guild, authorized and then implemented strikes. This came after their bargaining reps hit the wall negotiating with the studios, streaming services and production companies of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP. On Monday, SAG-AFTRA spoke about the most recent pre-strike proposals and counter-proposals. From the looks of it, the strike could go on for months; the two sides remain far apart.
Deadline recently wrote about the impasse, quoting an unnamed executive: “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”
