From ‘Nanny’ to negotiator, Fran Drescher rallied actors to new labor deal

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Under Drescher’s leadership, SAG-AFTRA walked off the job in mid-July, halting most film and scripted television production. After 118 days, negotiators announced they had reached an agreement. “I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty. That they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them.”Drescher’s remarks, which struck some as vitriolic, were reminiscent of Norma Rae, the title character in a 1970s movie based on a cotton-mill worker who rallied co-workers to unionize.

The composition of the union bargaining team reflected Drescher’s pro-proletariat view: some of the 42 members failed to qualify for SAG-AFTRA’s healthcare insurance because they earned less than $26,470 per year. This served to extend the strike, in the view of one studio chief, who observed, “We’re negotiating with people who have nothing to lose.”

“It’s okay to have things that make you comfortable. It doesn’t make you any less professional,” said actor Kimberly Westbrook, who carried a stuffed penguin and wore a “Don’t F– With Fran” pin while picketing Amazon Studios. “We’re actors. We are eccentric people.”Drescher said she did not need to “emulate a masculine energy to be a good leader.”

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