SAG Strike Update: Actors and Studios to Continue Talks Wednesday After Returning to Bargaining Table
After restarting negotiations on Tuesday, Hollywood’s actors and studios have set another round of talks for Wednesday in an effort to resolve the months-long strike.
“Today, the CEOs came back to the table. We are scheduled to continue talks with them tomorrow,” SAG said in a statement to its members. “We will continue to provide updates with you directly. Remember — don’t believe anything you read in the press unless it comes directly from us. Keep showing up on the picket lines and make your voices heard around the country.”
SAG-AFTRA members have been on strike since July 13. Their decision to picket came after more than a month of contract negotiations between the guild — the labor union representing more than 160,000 performers — and the AMPTP ended without agreement on a new deal.
Among the key issues on the table, according to our sister publication Variety, are “streaming residuals, artificial intelligence, and pension and health contributions.” After the Hollywood writers union the WGA finally reached a deal with the AMPTP last month and ended its own strike, hopes were high that a deal with SAG-AFTRA would soon follow.
However, talks broke down between the actors and studios on Oct. 12, with the AMPTP walking away from the negotiating table and declaring the gap between the two sides “too great.” At issue was a proposal from SAG that the studios pay a set percentage of all streaming revenue to the actors, which the AMPTP has classified all along as a non-starter. It took another 12 days for the two sides to resume negotiations.
ego of both.
that being said.
if actors want more money.
put into funding the movie.
you where paid to act …
Seems like both parties are too far from each other for any compromise not to feel like a defeat. So sad for all those non-actor workers behind the scenes who are the ones really suffering from this strike.