{"id":1978630,"date":"2023-07-20T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-were-super-committed-to-making-deal-with-wga-sag-aftra\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:20:43","slug":"netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-were-super-committed-to-making-deal-with-wga-sag-aftra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-were-super-committed-to-making-deal-with-wga-sag-aftra\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, firmly pledges commitment to striking a deal with WGA and SAG-AFTRA."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-were-super-committed-to-making-deal-with-wga-sag-aftra%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  co-CEO Ted Sarandos\u2062 has expressed his support for\u200b the writers&#8217; and\u2064 actors&#8217; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/strike\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">strike<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  currently\u2062 impacting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He understands and sympathizes \u200dwith the demands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-nominee-dismisses-job-losses-from-bidens-economic-plan\/\" title=\"Labor Nominee Dismisses Job Losses from Biden\u2019s Economic Plan\">organized labor<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a Netflix earnings call \u200bon Wednesday, \u2064Sarandos, who grew \u2064up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillbilly-elegy-author-jd-vance-confirms-hes-seriously-considering-senate-run-in-ohio\/\" title=\"\u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019 Author JD Vance Confirms He\u2019s Seriously Considering Senate Run In Ohio\">union household<\/a>,\u2063 shared his personal connection \u2062to the labor\u200d movement. &#8220;My dad was a member of IBEW \u2062Local 640, he was a union electrician,&#8221;\u200b Sarandos said. &#8220;I remember \u200chis local\u2062 because that union was very much a part of our lives \u2062when \u200bI\u200b was growing up. And I also remember on more than one occasion, \u200dmy Dad being out on \u200cstrike.\u200c And I \u2062remember\u2062 that because it takes an enormous toll on your\u2062 family, financially and emotionally.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sarandos \u200cemphasized the \u200ccommitment of \u2063Netflix and other industry organizations to reach\u200b a fair and \u2063equitable\u200d agreement as\u200c soon as possible. He acknowledged the challenges faced by the\u200c industry and expressed the desire to move forward\u200d into\u2062 the future together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of\u2062 the main concerns for SAG-AFTRA members\u2063 is the \u2064decrease in earnings from\u200c residuals, which \u2062are payments actors receive each time their projects \u200care played. This issue has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-were-super-committed-to-making-deal-with-wga-sag-aftra\/\" title=\"Netflix's Co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, firmly pledges commitment to striking a deal with WGA and SAG-AFTRA.\">put major streaming\u2063 platforms<\/a> like\u2064 Netflix at the center\u200c of the controversy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Sarandos showed sympathy towards the \u2063striking union members, Disney \u2062CEO \u200dBob Iger took a different \u200bstance. Prior to SAG-AFTRA joining the writers on \u2064the picket\u200b line, Iger described\u200b the months-long WGA strike as &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and \u200ccriticized \u2062the demands as unrealistic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iger expressed understanding for labor organizations&#8217; desire to secure fair compensation for \u2062their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-academy-refuses-to-show-race-based-curriculum-to-parents\/\" title=\"Elite Private Academy Refuses To Show Race-Based Curriculum To Parents\">members based<\/a> on the value they bring.\u200d However, he \u200bbelieved\u200c that the expectations of the\u200b writers \u200dand actors were not realistic \u200band added to the challenges already faced by the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos expressed support for the ongoing writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; strike in Hollywood. Raised in a union household, Sarandos empathized with organized labor&#8217;s demands, citing his father&#8217;s membership in IBEW Local 640 as a union electrician. He shared these sentiments during a recent Netflix earnings call, according to Deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1978631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}