I hear it has been met with resistance by the studios, which are drawing a line in the sand, sticking to pattern bargaining where everyone gets the same terms as the first guild to make a deal on common issues, like residual increases, which are pursued by all three guilds this year, along with AI regulation. Then there is SAG-AFTRA’s push to secure significantly better terms than the ones just negotiated by the DGA. Some of the factors playing into the ongoing talks are the large number of issues in many different areas that SAG-AFTRA is pursuing, factions within the guild and a new President who wants to make a mark in Drescher. “Our conversation is going to be very different, and I feel very hopeful that maybe we won’t get to this point. “SAG-AFTRA is a very big union, we represent many different career paths that fall under that umbrella, so it’s a very big, complicated conversation, and I don’t think what’s very important to writers - and I’m a writer too - is the kind of the stuff that we’re going after,” she said at the time, and sounded optimistic about SAG-AFTRA’s then-upcoming negotiations with the AMPTP. This is something SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher referenced in her comments to Deadline on the WGA picket line last month, which drew a lot of attention (and some criticism). To cover the asks of every group within the guild - from film and TV actors to voiceover actors to extras and more who all face different problems - the initial SAG-AFTRA list of demands contained dozens and dozens of pages and their presentation was also very long. Some of the complexities of the SAG-AFTRA negotiations stem from the fact that it is a lot more vast and sprawling than the WGA or DGA. If that happens, and depending whether it brings the two sides closer to a deal, they may agree to keep the talks going over the weekend (I hear negotiations also took place last weekend), and possibly discuss again extending talks past June 30.Īdding to the significance of today is the fact that the DGA membership’s vote closes, with the results bound to play a significant role in the ongoing guild contract negotiations (and lack thereof in the case of the WGA), especially if there is an upset.īecause of the usual media blackout around SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP, information is scarce, but from what I have gleaned talks have not been easy observers pegging them somewhere between the WGA ones which never got real traction, and the DGA ones, which went relatively smoothly, leading to a deal with a couple of days to spare in the negotiating window. SAG-AFTRA is expected to respond to the most recent AMPTP proposal. Today is believed to be an important day in the negotiations. SAG-AFTRA Says Its Bargaining Strategy For New Contract Remains Unchanged In Wake Of New DGA Deal
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