Happy 100! SAG-AFTRA And Studios To Return To Talks On Tuesday
21.10.2023 - 22:03
/ deadline.com
After over a week of silence, the actors union and the AMPTP are set to return to negotiations on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
“SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP will meet for bargaining on Tuesday, October 24 at SAG-AFTRA Plaza. Several executives from AMPTP member companies will be in attendance,” read a statement today from SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP.
That means, similar to the final days of the WGA talks and this previous round of SAG-AFTRA talks, that the CEO gang of four will be in the room next week. Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley, have been participating in efforts to close an agreement with the actors union for the past several weeks.
The studios left the talks and announced them “suspended” on Oct. 11. SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Deadline Thursday that he remained “optimistic” that both sides would sit across the table soon.
Said Crabtree-Ireland, “I did not expect [negotiations] would have to go so long…The amount of time spent without negotiating has been completely unconscionable. The studios and streamers ought to be back at the table with us now. They should have been there the first 80 days but they weren’t. I am very eager to see that happen and I believe it will happen soon. I think there’s a lot of pressure happening outside of formal channels to get people back to the table, so I’m optimistic that that will happen sometime soon. But I know that we’re just going to stand strong and get a fair deal.”
While not unusual for labor talks to start and stall and start again, as we saw with the WGA and the studios recently, it seems that this specific resumption of deliberations is in no
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