SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Reach Tentative Deal to End Actors’ Strike
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a deal!
A month after the Writers Guild of America formally reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, SAG-AFTRA has now reached its own tentative agreement with the studios, signaling an end to the 118-day actors’ strike.
The union’s negotiating committee unanimously approved the three-year agreement on Wednesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and the work stoppage will end Thursday at 12:01 am PT. The agreement will have to be formally ratified by the union’s members, though, to seal the deal.
“In a contract valued at over one billion dollars, we have achieved a deal of extraordinary scope that includes ‘above-pattern’ minimum compensation increases, unprecedented provisions for consent and compensation that will protect members from the threat of AI, and for the first time establishes a streaming participation bonus,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement to its members. “Our Pension & Health caps have been substantially raised, which will bring much needed value to our plans. In addition, the deal includes numerous improvements for multiple categories including outsize compensation increases for background performers, and critical contract provisions protecting diverse communities.”
The statement added: “We have arrived at a contract that will enable SAG-AFTRA members from every category to build sustainable careers. Many thousands of performers now and into the future will benefit from this work.”
The AMPTP chimed in with their own statement as well: “Today’s tentative agreement represents a new paradigm. It gives SAG-AFTRA the biggest contract-on-contract gains in the history of the union, including the largest increase in minimum wages in the last forty years; a brand new residual for streaming programs; extensive consent and compensation protections in the use of artificial intelligence; and sizable contract increases on items across the board. The AMPTP is pleased to have reached a tentative agreement and looks forward to the industry resuming the work of telling great stories.”
The news comes four days after SAG-AFTRA notified its members Saturday that the AMPTP presented the guild with what it described as their “last, best and final offer.”
Members of SAG-AFTRA — the labor union representing more than 160,000 performers — have been on strike since July 13, after more than a month of contract negotiations between the guild and the AMPTP ended without agreement on a new deal. Among the key issues on the table were streaming residuals, artificial intelligence and pension and health contributions.
In early October, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP resumed negotiations, only for talks to break down on Oct. 12 after the studios cited a gap “too great” between the two sides and walked away from the bargaining table. At the time, SAG-AFTRA said in a statement that the AMPTP used “bully tactics” during negotiations and was “putting out misleading information in an attempt to fool our members into abandoning our solidarity and putting pressure on our negotiators.”
SAG-AFTRA’s desire for a share of streaming revenue for all union-covered shows was an especially thorny topic, with the AMPTP alleging that the guild’s proposal would cost more than $800 million a year and create “an untenable economic burden.” SAG-AFTRA later countered that its revenue share proposal “would cost the companies less than 57 cents per subscriber each year,” adding that the studios have “intentionally misrepresented to the press the cost of the above proposal – overstating it by 60%.”
Negotiations then picked back up on Oct. 24 and have continued until Wednesday’s tentative agreement was reached.
The writers’ strike, meanwhile, unofficially ended on Sept. 27 after WGA leadership voted the previous day to end the strike and send its members back to work. The strike’s formal conclusion followed on Oct. 9, when 99% of WGA members voted in favor of ratifying a new contract with the AMPTP. The new deal will remain in place through May 1, 2026.
Yes!!
Can you say hallelujah!!!!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Tentatively exciting!
Well it’s over as sag-aftra unanimously approved this deal and I have a feeling one of the late night shows because they tape Friday shows on Thursday don’t be suprised if you see the cast of the marvels on one of these shows
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So did the studios cave and finally give up their Zombie clause? Really hope so – actors deserve to own and control their own likenesses.
Yes I think it’s up to the families and also this would’ve effected not only the fall 2024 tv season but summer blockbuster season which effects bigger name actors and one movie that likely now will have a release date I think possibly end of next year or 2025 is beyond the spider verse as now the people involved can record there lines with the main characters being Hayley Seinfeld Oscar Isaac shemmake Moore marshalia Ali at the end it teased we might see spider man noir back meaning nic cage
What did you just say?
Big name or small, all actors were affected.
So many other movies besides the Spiderman movie are waiting to be released and filmed.
the next spiderverse was never coming out on time, the abusive treatment the animators were put through for the second one was ridiculous, they only barely finished it on time and hadnt done any work on the third, i wouldnt expect it until at least 2026, especially if they manage to organise a union like the rumours going around were saying.
Much as I want to cheer, I won’t fully cheer & be happy about this until I see that the members of SAG-AFTRA have voted to ratify the new contract. Then I will trust that whatever season we get of new programming will be more likely to happen. I hope this is the case, but until it is ratified, I won’t fully trust it’s over.
The negotiating committee ratified it unanimously so it will likely get full support from the union and again since the strike ends at 12:01 am don’t be suprised if one of the late night shows as again they tape Thursday and Friday shows on Thursday don’t be suprised if they reach out to the cast of the marvels and also now a deal is done don’t be surprised if Sony announces a new date for beyond the spider verse the final part of Miles triology and again much like Sam raimi’s 2nd spider man far better then the first
Let’s be honest, does this really change any of our lives? One can live without such entertainment. I promise you can.
Thanks for taking the time to visit a site that reports on entertainment to let us know you can live without entertainment. Best TED Talk I’ve been to in a while!
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PS There’s an entire industry built around “such entertainment” that you may not be aware of, so be sure to visit these entertainment sites much more frequently to learn about it! Best!
And there is one show that probably because of this strike will be pushed into the 2024 season but now that the strike is over I could see abc for the 2024-25 fall season on Monday at 10/9 c being anchored by the good doctor and the good lawyer as now that this strike is over I think abc will order the good lawyer to series to premire mid-season when the good doctor has it’s hiatus
You gave me a chuckle was well as precisely stating my own thoughts. Thanks!
and yet…here you are!
Yet you’re on a tv news site reading about it
Yes I’ve survived without it just fine. But I’m glad they made a deal since there are shows I like that I miss watching and the actors need their jobs to get paid so hopefully it was strongly in their favor.
It does affect my life, because there are many members of SAG-AFTRA who are tenants in some of our rental units and if they can’t work, they can’t pay their rent. We don’t want these people to lose their homes because of a strike.
Ummm, you clearly have not been paying attention to this or ANY of the recent union strikes. Yes, it actually DOES change your life. If you don’t know how or why…that’s on you. Enjoy your less than desirable work situation. Unions built the middle class and this country needs to be UNION STRONG!
I love all the people who pretend to be for unions and then back people who break unions, like the train unions last year.
well said, LT!
I’m pro union across the board besides police unions. So yes the union getting what they want really does change our lives. Unions winning means we all win.
This isn’t Reddit. This is a website about TV entertainment.
Changes immensely. AI and corporate greed are a treat to most lines of work. People fighting against is is uttermost essential.
Happy Days are here again! 😴
All well and good that the Strikes are over but do not forget those Scabs that kept working using the loopholes of being their respective Project’s Leading Actor/Actress, Writers, Producers, Executive Producers, Showrunners, Co-Writers, Overseers, etc. Remember who they are and that they stood for nothing!
3 years? I feel like I read somewhere that the previous contract was in place before streaming was a thing. Was the previous contract in place for a lot longer than 3 years?
This feels like it came out of nowhere after the recent news about the studios insisting they own dead actors. Did they grow a heart that fast? Feels unlike them.
You are reading an old new story.
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I’m happy to hear it. I just hope its really good deal for the actors and there’s no hidden catch in it. Especially with the A.I. problem. Did the studios just give up the terrible idea so quickly to close the deal? hope so, but I don’t trust them
Wow did this strike really show people’s true character. You can tell who were the actors that truly cared while there were the ones that did nothing and relied on their privilege to get them by. That speaks a lot within itself.
So the last and final offer worked contrary to all the bluster from the side-lines
I seriously doubt SAG approved a deal that included that insane AI clause about studios having the unfettered ability to use the likeness of deceased actors without anyone’s consent, especially given their public response. Chances are additional concessions were made after that “last and final offer”.
So this basically ended just like the writers’ strike, yeah? AMPTP made a “final deal”, strikers said “Haha no eff that, that’s a garbage deal”, AMPTP caves in to virtually all the demands because the bottom line is starting to get pinched…
Do you know if Star Trek Strange New Worlds will start filming soon? I think they were supposed to start filming right before the strike started
Time to lick your wounds, actors.
I kinda had a feeling this was close when SNL booked Chalamet to be the host. Why would they book him if he couldn’t promote anything? Well, it’s all good now…Wonka it up!!!
SNL could have SAG members and not violate anything.
As long as he didn’t talk about the movie, he would be fine. The press and news was doing it for him.
That was easy LOL
SMILE SMILE SMILE
I’m happy the strike is over, not only for the actors but for those in casting who can now get back to work finding the right actors for the right roles. Though not on strike themselves people I know in casting have been unemployed, too. Good job SAG-AFTRA!
Yes, sigh. Now I can work on the short film in L.A.