Bryan Cranston joined striking actors and writers as they staged a protest in New York on Tuesday, 25 July.
Today’s demonstration is part of ongoing action by the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union.
The union says it called a strike for better pay to keep up with inflation, and protection over performers’ images and performances to prevent replacement of human performances by artificial intelligence technology.
Cranston told a crowd: “We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots.”
Today’s demonstration is part of ongoing action by the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union.
The union says it called a strike for better pay to keep up with inflation, and protection over performers’ images and performances to prevent replacement of human performances by artificial intelligence technology.
Cranston told a crowd: “We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots.”
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00:00 We've got a message for Mr. Iger.
00:03 [cheers]
00:06 I know, sir, that you look through things through a different lens.
00:11 We don't expect you to understand who we are.
00:15 But we ask you to hear us, and beyond that, to listen to us.
00:21 When we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and giving to robots,
00:29 [cheers]
00:32 we will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living.
00:39 [cheers]
00:43 And lastly and most importantly, we will not allow you to take away our dignity.
00:49 [cheers]
00:52 We are union through and through all the way to the end.