After waging their own historic labor battles with the studios last year, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are throwing their weight behind the Fashion Workers Act, which addresses the modeling industry’s exploitative working conditions and is making its way through New York state’s legislature.
In a memorandum of support, viewed by Variety, SAG-AFTRA’s wrote that it “strongly believes that all creative workers should be protected under the law.” The union that represents 35,000 actors, recording artists and broadcasters and shares some overlap with the modeling industry added, “Unfortunately, workers in the fashion industry — many of whom are young women — often have little protections and are likewise vulnerable to
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