After weeks of speculation, the industry will finally learn whether Hollywood will see its first “double strike” in six decades some time Wednesday or early Thursday morning.
With SAG-AFTRA’s current film and television contracts package expiring at midnight on July 12, negotiators for both labor and management have one more day to reach a potential compromise or a performers’ strike could be called as soon as Thursday. A federal mediator has been brought in for the final day, after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers made a last-minute request this week that SAG-AFTRA agreed to on Tuesday evening, even as the union said in a statement it suspected a “cynical ploy” to extend talks further was afoot. (The union maintained that it will not accede to extending its contract’s deadline again, as both parties did on June 30 — meaning the federal mediator will have just a single business...
With SAG-AFTRA’s current film and television contracts package expiring at midnight on July 12, negotiators for both labor and management have one more day to reach a potential compromise or a performers’ strike could be called as soon as Thursday. A federal mediator has been brought in for the final day, after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers made a last-minute request this week that SAG-AFTRA agreed to on Tuesday evening, even as the union said in a statement it suspected a “cynical ploy” to extend talks further was afoot. (The union maintained that it will not accede to extending its contract’s deadline again, as both parties did on June 30 — meaning the federal mediator will have just a single business...
- 7/12/2023
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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