The studios wasted no time Friday responding to the SAG-AFTRA National Board’s vote to approve the brand new tentative settlement between the guild and the AMPTP.
“We are pleased that the National Board has recommended the agreement for ratification by the membership,” an AMPTP spokesperson mentioned in an announcement despatched after the guild’s press convention at its Wilshire Boulevard headquarters. “We are also grateful that the entire industry has enthusiastically returned to work.”
This afternoon, SAG-AFTRA’s sprawling nationwide board voted 86% to approve the tentative settlement and put together to ship it to the membership for ratification. Taking place on-line and in particular person, the vote will start Tuesday, November 14 and run to the primary week of December, guild chief negotiation Duncan Crabtree-Ireland revealed on the press convention.
After a 118-day strike by the actors guild, SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached what the union has referred to as an “unprecedented” deal on November 8. The settlement between the 2 events, which was preceded by a late-September deal between the studios and the WGA, comprises wage and residuals will increase in addition to bitterly fought-over AI protections.
The deal additionally was achieved regardless of some fairly harsh language publicly and behind the scenes between the 2 sides all through the previous a number of months.
Discussion about this post