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As the Screen Actors Guild strike drags on, Los Angeles ad agencies are being regularly targeted by demonstrators who often spend the day clanging metal plates and shouting slogans in order to call attention to their plight.
Some of those picketing are not strikers but actually wannabe union members eager to curry favor with SAG.
“We’re offering membership to those who spend 80 hours or more as volunteer demonstrators,” explained organizer Doug Traer as he paused to sign a protest time card outside Grey Advertising, Los Angeles, last week.
Traer said the union was hoping to turn up the heat on Grey and other agencies.
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