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Are There Still More Strikes Ahead?

Hollywood is rejoicing after an awful six months, but as 2024 negotiations loom, will C.E.O.s take the high road?

SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland (C) raises his fist while speaking at the conclusion of picketing outside Paramount Studios on day 113 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 3, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland (center) said he’s hopeful “that in the future, if there are challenging labor moments, that we keep the conversation going—instead of having the kind of just roadblocks that we had this time around.” Mario Tama/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
&
Jonathan Handel
November 10, 2023

How did you celebrate? It’s really hard to describe the level of jubilation around town a day after SAG-AFTRA agreed to a tentative deal with the studios. Mostly because this situation feels so foreign. Six long months. Strikes by two of the three above-the-line unions simultaneously. Countless jobs and paychecks lost, hot careers derailed, an estimated $6 billion erased from the national economy. And, tragically, Kim Kardashian was unable to post on Instagram about her appearances in American Horror Story and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. We all suffered, some more than others.