Cynthia Littleton Business Editor SAG-AFTRA has released the full 128-page contract that ended the actors strike on Nov. 8, with union leaders urging members to vote yes on the deal by the Dec. 5 ratification deadline.
11.11.2023 - 04:55 / deadline.com
Following today’s vote by the majority of SAG-AFTRA‘s National Board to approve the tentative agreement reached with studio CEOs and the AMPTP earlier this week, the actor’s guild has released more details of the deal.
As they have repeatedly said in the past two day since reaching a deal with the studios to end the 118-day strike, the guild stated Friday “the total package” is “valued at more than one billion dollars in new wages and benefit plan funding.” Coming two days after the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached their tentative agreement, released more compensation information on the deal Friday, several hours after the SAG-AFTRA National Board voted 86% to approve it.
An 80-page summery of the full agreement, which has not yet been made public, will go to eligible members of the guild on November 13, I hear. Ratification voting on the agreement starts November 14 and runs until the first week of December for the 160,000 member guild.
Calling the tentative agreement “a landmark achievement for the union,” SAG-AFTRA this evening noted the “meaningful protections” and consent rights around AI — which had been a big sticking point in discussions with the studios. Unlike today’s press conference with SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and National Executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Friday’s missive from the guild did not deliver specific numbers for the much vaulted “creation of a new compensation stream for performers working in streaming.”
With the campaign to win members’ votes already clearly afoot, the guild Friday also had a lot to say about wage increases, casting guidelines, relocation allowances and Health and Pension fund contribution caps. In full pitch mode,
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor SAG-AFTRA has released the full 128-page contract that ended the actors strike on Nov. 8, with union leaders urging members to vote yes on the deal by the Dec. 5 ratification deadline.
Over two weeks after SAG-AFTRA reached a deal with the studios and ended their nearly four-month long strike, the actors guild has just released the full text of the tentative agreement.
Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA’s tentative agreement with the studios once, and he’s damn sure going to vote against it again.
Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA’s tentative agreement with the studios once, and he’s going to vote against it again.
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After 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative new deal with studios.
actors’ strike that first began in July.SAG-AFTRA took to social media to announce the end of the strike, writing: “Our TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee voted unanimously to approve a tentative agreement with the AMPTP [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers]. As of 12:01 a.m.
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