The Hollywood Actors Guild Board of Directors (SAGAFTRA) approved this Friday (10) the preliminary contract negotiated with the main studios (represented by). AMPTP) to end the strike in this category, which had already lasted almost four months. According to Variety, the expected approval was determined by 86% of the commission’s votes.
The preliminary agreement provides for a 7% increase in minimum wages in most categories and a new participation bonus for $40 million for artists working on streaming productions that achieve a certain level of success, more than $1 billion regarding new salaries and benefit plan funding, safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence, the requirement that intimacy coordinators be present in all nude and simulated sex scenes, appropriate hair and makeup services for all performers with skin tones, among others and different hair tones.
Fran Drescher (The Nanny), president of the union, also emphasized the importance of addressing AI in negotiations, which was one of the last points agreed upon in contract negotiations and one of the main grievances from the category: “If we don’t get into it to include it in this package, so what do we do? We wouldn’t really be able to protect our members the way they need to be protected… If we didn’t put up these barriers, what would it look like in three years?”
The union’s bargaining committee said the contract would “enable SAGAFTRA members of all ranks to build sustainable careers” and that “thousands of artists would benefit from this work now and in the future.”
The SAGAFTRA committee unanimously approved the agreement last Wednesday (8), the union announced. As a result, the strike in this category ended on November 9 at 12:01 a.m. Los Angeles time (5:01 a.m. Brasília time).
Until the final days of negotiations between the union and the studios, there was great disagreement over the use of artificial intelligence in productions. Last Saturday 4th, AMPTP presented the document which it described as the “last, best and final proposal”, signaling that new talks would not take place until next year if negotiations were not completed. This decision would have further implications for Hollywood’s release calendar.
The strike not only prevented the filming of numerous projects with SAGaffiliated interpreters, but also prevented these actors from participating in press events for films that had already been completed.
SAGAFTRA also anticipated additional pressure from writers, who went on strike in May but agreed to review contracts in October. With the end of the screenwriters’ strike, some productions have already resumed operations.
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