{"id":2026689,"date":"2023-09-09T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fran-drescher-wins-reelection-bid-for-sag-aftra-president\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:54:17","slug":"fran-drescher-wins-reelection-bid-for-sag-aftra-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fran-drescher-wins-reelection-bid-for-sag-aftra-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Drescher reelected as SAG-AFTRA president."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Ffran-drescher-wins-reelection-bid-for-sag-aftra-president%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=2026689&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--><h2>Actress Fran Drescher Wins Re-Election\u200d as\u2064 Union President<\/h2>\n<p>Actress Fran Drescher has\u2063 emerged victorious\u200b in her union&#8217;s election,\u2062 securing \u2063another two-year term as president. Drescher, known for her role in the hit\u200d series Stranger\u2064 Things, began her presidency in the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation\u2064 of Television and Radio Artists in 2021. She narrowly defeated actor Matthew Modine to claim the position. Her opponent, actress Maya Gilbert-Dunbar, lost by\u2064 a wide margin, with\u2062 Drescher capturing an \u200bimpressive\u200c 81% of\u2063 the vote.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging \u2064the Strike<\/h3>\n<p>Gilbert-Dunbar ran\u2062 against\u200d Drescher with the aim of\u200d ending an ongoing \u2062strike. The SAG-AFTRA members received their ballots on August 9, long\u2064 after the strike had commenced. The \u200cvotes \u200dwere \u200bfinally counted on Friday,\u200d with a\u2064 22% \u2063voter\u2064 turnout among \u2064eligible members. Gilbert-Dunbar, in her bid to halt the strike, urged Drescher and her supporters\u2063 to take drastic\u200b action, saying, &#8220;Chain your a**es up to the damn door of the \u200cSherman Oaks building to show how serious\u200c you are. \u200dPeople can&#8217;t afford this. Strikes were never meant to last months and months. An effective strike should be short and sweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert-Dunbar, a well-known television actress and writer, has\u200d appeared in popular \u200dshows like The Mentalist, Harry&#8217;s Law, and Southland. She has been married to fellow actor Rockmond Dunbar for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<h3>Optimism for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Following her \u2062re-election, Drescher expressed her optimism for\u200b the future, stating, &#8220;These \u2063are dynamic times, and as one member \u2062body,\u2063 we\u200b will weather the storms, stand on our principles, and make sure our major contributions\u2064 to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fran-drescher-wins-reelection-bid-for-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-preemptively-resigns-from-the-screen-actors-guild\/\" title=\"President Trump preemptively resigns from the Screen Actors Guild\">sag-aftra<\/a>-president\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Fran Drescher reelected as SAG-AFTRA president.&#8221;>collaborative art form<\/a> shall \u200dnever again\u2063 be diminished but \u200drather be exalted. Much has \u200bbeen accomplished in the past \u200btwo years, but I \u200dfeel great optimism that the next two will be our greatest ever!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>A\u2062 Multifaceted Career<\/h3>\n<p>While many \u200cknow Drescher for her iconic role as Fran Fine in \u200cThe Nanny, she \u2064is also an accomplished writer and creator of the series. Her writing debut came\u200d with The Nanny, but she had \u2062already made a name for herself as an actress in projects like Fame, Nine to Five, and Law and \u2063Order. The series went on to\u200c win \u2063an Emmy, \u200band Drescher received two Emmy nominations and a Golden\u2062 Globe nomination\u200b of her own.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her television work, Drescher has lent her voice to\u200c the Hotel Transylvania sequels\u200d and\u2062 made a \u2063guest appearance on the short-lived Mr. Mayor series. Most recently, she starred\u200c in\u2064 the made-for-TV movie Dawn, which was released this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Continuity in Leadership<\/h3>\n<p>Joely Fisher has also been reelected as secretary-treasurer, serving another\u2062 two-year term alongside Drescher.<\/p>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA \u2064represents\u200c approximately 160,000 performers and has been on strike for 56 days as of Friday. The negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and\u200c Television Producers\u200b revolve\u2064 around increased wages and protections \u2062against artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Writers\u200b Guild of America (WGA) has\u200b been \u2062engaged \u2063in its own strike for nearly 130 days, with 11,500 writers participating. The WGA\u200d is also in conflict with the same group of studios, networks, and streamers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/workers-protest-at-15-major-u-s-airports-demanding-higher-wages-benefits\/\" title=\"Workers Protest at 15 Major U.S. Airports Demanding Higher Wages, Benefits\">demanding higher wages<\/a>. The last time both the \u2062WGA and SAG-AFTRA were simultaneously on strike was in 1960, with Ronald \u2063Reagan leading the charge before his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington \u200dExaminer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran Drescher secures another two-year term as president of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In 2021, she narrowly defeated Stranger Things actor Matthew Modine to assume the role. 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