

SAG-AFTRA and main studios have hit pause on negotiations amid the continuing strike.
The Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) issued an announcement on Wednesday, October 11, confirming progress has stalled.
“Negotiations between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA have been suspended after SAG-AFTRA offered its most up-to-date proposal on October 11,” the commerce affiliation, which represents main corporations similar to Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Common, Paramount and Sony, stated in a press launch. “After significant conversations, it’s clear that the hole between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA is simply too nice, and conversations are not shifting us in a productive route.”
The assertion concluded: “We hope that SAG-AFTRA will rethink and return to productive negotiations quickly.”
In response, SAG-AFTRA claimed the studios walked away and accused them of utilizing “bully techniques.”
“[The studios] deliberately misrepresented to the press the price of the above proposal — overstating it by 60 p.c,” SAG’s assertion, launched on Thursday, October 12, learn. “They’ve accomplished the identical with AI, claiming to guard performer consent, however persevering with to demand “consent” on the primary day of employment to be used of a performer’s digital duplicate for a complete cinematic universe (or any franchise venture).”
SAG-AFTRA made it clear that they nonetheless need to negotiate on behalf of their members.
“The businesses are utilizing the identical failed technique they tried to inflict on the WGA — placing out deceptive data in an try to idiot our members into abandoning our solidarity and placing stress on our negotiators,” the assertion concluded. “However, identical to the writers, our members are smarter than that and won’t be fooled.”
In response to AMPTP, the proposal for actors to obtain a 2 p.c lower of streaming platform income was what brought on the divide. AMPTP additionally talked about “quite a few remaining open gadgets” nonetheless left on the desk, however didn’t make clear which subjects they had been at odds over. Earlier this month, SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP restarted negotiations after beforehand failing to achieve an settlement on AI laws, minimal wage charges and extra.
The WGA initially kicked issues off by initiating a strike in Could after failing to achieve an settlement in its contract negotiations with the AMPTP. Two months later, SAG-AFTRA joined writers on the picket line after their very own labor dispute with the AMPTP reached a standstill. Hollywood productions subsequently shut down except they adhered to the SAG-AFTRA Interim Settlement.
The WGA and AMPTP subsequently reached an settlement in September on a three-year contract.
“We are able to say, with nice pleasure, that this deal is outstanding — with significant features and protections for writers in each sector of the membership,” the negotiating committee for the WGA wrote in an electronic mail to its members. The message included a 94-page of the brand new phrases which referenced compensation features, a brand new requirement for minimal workers ranges in TV author’s rooms, enchancment fee phrases for screenwriters and protections for the usage of synthetic intelligence.