The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday morning to discuss how to find funding for small businesses impacted by the ongoing Hollywood strike.
The agenda includes a motion in which a letter would be sent to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers urging them to return to the negotiating table.
It comes after SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said in an interview that he wouldn’t be surprised if the strike lasted through January or February.
“No one’s gonna force us to make a deal, I think that’s hopefully apparent,” he said.
“And if it’s not, let me be very, very clear: we will only make a deal that is fair for our members and that respects them, and any deal less than that, there is no one that’s gonna force us to make that deal.”
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger told KNX News the board wants to find funding to help impacted business owners survive.
“The damage is incredible,” she said. “People have no idea the trick effect, the domino effect of people being out of work because the discretionary funding is gone as it relates to how they spend their money.”
She added that among those impacted by the strike include the mom-and-pop shops and restaurants around the studios.
“People don't have the spending money to go out and purchase items that normally would be considered everyday things they have to cut back in order to make ends meet on their rents,” she said.
Barger also told KNX News there was talk of asking Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency over the Hollywood strike, which would allow them to tap into federal funding; however, she said she was told a state of emergency is not possible over a labor issue
Follow KNX News 97.1 FM
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
Related
Related
