"Saturday Night Live" crew members have threatened to go on strike if they can't reach a contract agreement with their employer, NBC, by the end of this month.
The sketch comedy show's postproduction team is planning to go on strike April 1, the Motion Picture Editors Guild announced Thursday via Twitter. The staff members are demanding higher pay, maintained health benefits and collective bargaining rights.
According to the MPEG, members of the series' editorial department are "paid far below industry standards," and assistant editors allegedly make "just a fraction of what their counterparts on union shows earn."
