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06.12.2023 - 07:05 / deadline.com
Hollywood’s long strike season is over and the town can finally get back to work without the specter of any more labor action, for now.
Actors were on strike for 118 days, but after ratifying the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, with a very healthy 78.33% of the votes, thesps, scribes, directors and crew — not to mention of all of the associated workers — can head into 2024 with a bit of optimism.
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA and Chief Negotiator, who alongside President Fran Drescher and the guild’s negotiating committee spent many months working to secure this deal, spoke to Deadline an hour after Tuesday’s ratification vote. He evidently was pleased with both the result and the turnout, higher than even he saw coming.
The deal, which is worth around $1B over three years, comes with the union’s first-ever protections around AI technology, albeit controversial ones, as well as gains around residuals, particularly the introduction of a streaming bonus, pension and healthcare.
Crabtree-Ireland admitted that some people would not be happy about the deal, particularly around AI, but said that SAG-AFTRA essentially got what it was asking for at the beginning of the process. He called it a “very good start to establishing a sophisticated and enforceable set of protections for our members.”
He also addressed healthcare concerns, which came front and center earlier today after Animal Kingdom star Ellen Barkin tweeted that she’d been “thrown off” her SAG-AFTRA healthcare plan. Crabtree-Ireland said additional funding will give the healthcare trustees “financial flexibility” in future.
Finally, he also said that he was “already starting to think about” the 2026 negotiations. They’ll
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officially ending the strike that began in July. The striking actors reached a tentative deal with film studios last month.“In national voting completed today, members of SAG-AFTRA ratified the 2023 TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),” a press release from the union stated.
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher told Variety minutes after the union disclosed the ratification vote tally that sealed the deal on its hard-fought new three-year contract. Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s union’s national executive director and chief negotiator, took a moment to reflect Tuesday evening on the winding road that led the union to wage its first strike in more than 40 years, as well as the high-stakes negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and studio chiefs that produced the deal. For nearly four months, SAG-AFTRA’s indefatigable duo were the face of the 118-day strike by the union’s 160,000 members.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA members have voted to ratify their contract, officially ending the longest labor battle in Hollywood history. The contract was approved with 78% voting in favor. Turnout was 38%.
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