The Screen Actors Guild, of course, isn't the Teamsters. Most unions, everybody makes about the same salary. In my humble opinion, which is not so humble, the others have always been cheated. But then, an actor's life is by definition unfair. They train harder than surgeons but have to take jobs as butchers.
Any work is tough to find.
So now, instead of waiting for a break, they are just as stubbornly waiting out the strike. In the me-first world of professional entertainment, solidarity with the little people is too often a joke. The big people forget they were ever little. So, whatever the resolution of the SAG strike, there's something sweet in the spectacle of stars of the wattage of Cage and Hunt and Spacey helping actors whose one golden goal is to display their art, and make a few bucks, holding a bottle of mouthwash. Out of work doesn't frighten us.