After nearly four months, the long SAG-AFTRA strike is coming to an end after the cast finally reached a lucrative agreement with the studio.
The Screen Actors Guild went on strike in July, complaining of low pay by major studios and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in production.
SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Teal With Big Studio
On Wednesday, the SAG-AFTRA committee reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with the studio, officially ending the 118-day strike unanimously.
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The union announced that the strike would end at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, and then went to the union’s national board on Friday for approval. For the past few weeks, SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee and the studios have been at it, trying to work out an agreement that benefits both parties, especially the actors.
According to Variety, the deal is the first protection agreement for actors against artificial intelligence and a historic pay raise. The agreement will reportedly see most minimums increase by 7% — two percent above the increases received by the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.
While the union has not released any details about the tentative deal, the publication claims full details are expected to be released Friday after the national board votes.
SAG-AFTRA and the studios first convened for talks on October 2 with major players Ted Sarandos of Netflix, David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney’s Bob Iger and Donna Langley, Group chairman and chief content officer of NBCUniversal Studio in attendance.
However, the two sides reached a stalemate, and the studio finally quit on Oct. 11 over SAG-AFTRA’s proposal to charge each streaming subscriber on major platforms in a move the union’s chief negotiator called “horrific,” The Hollywood reported . Reporter.
After a two-week break, they regrouped on October 24; this time, the studio has upped their offering. They came with a generous offer to increase the actor’s salary and a slightly modified version of a success-based streaming bonus similar to what was offered to the WGA. However, there is still the issue of AI, which the union believes is a threat to its members.
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On Saturday, the studios presented their “last, best and final” offer, but the two sides continued to negotiate until they reached a final agreement that ended the strike.
The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike is the longest in history, surpassing the previous 1980 strike by 23 days.
WGA Reaches Agreement After 146 Days
The long-awaited end of the SAG-AFTRA strike is somewhat reminiscent of the WGA strike, which ended in September after 146 days of writers being out of work.
As we reported, representatives of the WGA major studio WGA and Hollywood reached an agreement After 10 hours of negotiations on the second day of the five-day negotiation process.
The two sides reached a three-year contract, and the co-chair of the negotiating committee delivered the good news to its members via email.
“DEAR MEMBERS, We have reached a tentative agreement on the new MBA 2023, which is an agreement in principle on all matters of the agreement, subject to the drafting of final contract language,” the message began.
It continued, “What we have won in this contract – especially, everything we have won since May 2nd – is because of the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to show its unity, to walk side by side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the last 146 days .”
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The deal was described as “extraordinary” with “meaningful benefits and protections for writers in every membership sector.” Unlike SAG-AFTRA, which called for an immediate end to the strike, the WGA urged its members not to return to work until specifically authorized by the Union.
They, however, immediately hung up the picket.
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