AMPTP Disputes SAG-AFTRA’s “Misleading” Claims About Last Contract Offer Before Strike Began
deadline.comThe Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is disputing SAG-AFTRA’s “misleading” characterization of its proposals before contract talks broke off and the actors’ strike began a week ago.
On July 17, SAG-AFTRA issued a chart entitled “SAG-AFTRA Negotiations Status as of July 13, 2023.” According to the AMPTP, “Substantial portions of that chart are misleading, either in the characterization of the Producers’ offer or in the omission of key details.” To counter the guild’s chart (see it here), the AMPTP has issued one of its own (see it below), which provides the AMPTP perspective on each of the items noted in SAG-AFTRA’s chart.
The text in black is reproduced from SAG-AFTRA’s chart, while the text in red and blue represents the Producers’ additions).
With respect to wages, for instance, the guild’s chart notes that it’s asking for an 11% increase in general wages in the first year of a new contract, and 4% raises in the second and third year. “Without an inflation-adjusted year-one wage increase,” the guild says, “members will be working for lower real wages in 2023 than they earned in 2020 and would likely still be working for lower real wages even in 2026.” But the AMPTP claims that the guild’s chart “failed to mention” that the “Producers’ offer is historic by any measure.
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