End of the strike in the US
The agreement includes a contract worth more than $1 billion and will improve salaries for more than 160,000 interpreters.
The Screen Actors Guild of the United States SAG-AFTRA and the Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement of “one million dollars” this Wednesday to end a strike that has lasted almost four months and affected more than 160,000 artists.
“We are happy and proud to tell you that today your TV/Theatre Negotiating Committee voted unanimously to approve a preliminary agreement (…) our strike is officially suspended and all pickets have been withdrawn. We will be in touch in the coming days with information about the party gatherings across the country,” the union said in a statement.
The deal includes a contract “worth more than $1 billion” (approximately €934 million) and will improve workers’ minimum wages as well as contributions to their healthcare and pension funds, as well as increase payments, so-called residuals (which artists receive after the broadcast on television, and now on platforms, of their series and films) and there will be new rules that will regulate the use of artificial intelligence.
As already happened during the writers’ strike, the guild’s 160,000 actors will have to vote on its approval on Friday, and that is where the details of the pact will be known. Of the writers, 99% approved the proposal at the end of September, after almost five months of strike.
Source: EITB
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