Reel 360 News: It is Game 7, bottom of the 9th. Hollywood studios have extended the deadline for negotiations with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) for one more week, signaling that if a deal cannot be reached in this time frame, new productions may be postponed until 2024.
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The studios' determination to not pay people the money they deserve is a little astounding. The AMPTP Has been “negotiating” with SAG AFTRA Which only actually consists of them trying to bully them into taking a terrible deal, all while trying to convince the public that it's the Union's fault for not giving in to their pressure. Thankfully the public for the most part at least has been taking the side of the working class and not the greedy CEOs who have way too much money and are just trying to get more. Seeing the AMPTP Take such measures as delaying their releases by this much tends a little bit of a signal that it's going to be a while. They know that if they give it this will mean very good things for the union and it will mean much stronger negotiations down the line and that's the last thing that they want.
Hopefully the studios will agree to the terms laid out by SAG-AFTRA so that these titans of the film industry can salvage their production season (just kidding I care about the actors getting the compensation they deserve and having an income again). It is concerning that the studios will lose a significant sense of urgency once this November 1st deadline passes. It is a conflict of their own making. However, for those who are on strike every day after the November 1st deadline is still crucial. It has been more than a hundred days that members of SAG-AFTRA have been on strike and people need work and income. I didn’t realize that one of the terms of WAG’s Agreement with the studios had to do with subscriptions which is huge. SAG-AFTRA wants to go with a different model regarding compensation through subscriptions, so I wonder how the two subscription conditions differ.
It’s quite upsetting that the SAG-AFTRA strike has yet to be resolved. Especially after the WGA was finally able to end striking, I’m sure most were quite hopeful that soon after the studios would figure out negations with SAG-AFTRA. As this article stated, if negotiations aren’t made soon, then the production schedule will be pushed back even further, which will impact everyone in the industry, not to mention vastly extending the time that actors would have to be on strike. I would be interested to see the most recent requests of the studios as well as SAG-AFTRA. This article mentioned that SAG-AFTRA is now asking for a “$1-per-subscription fee from streaming divisions.” I wonder the drawbacks that the studios have from this deal, and the details behind the broader aspects of the strike that is seemingly making this situation so wildly complicated, and keeping so many performers and industry-workers out of work.
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