Duncan Crabtree-Ireland On Latest Delay With Negotiations: “I Do Not Understand Why They Think That’s A Way To Move Process Forward”

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While walking the picket line Thursday outside of Netflix, SAG-AFTRA‘s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland expressed his frustration over the suspension in talks the studios called last night. “The negotiating room yesterday was a session just like the others that we’ve had,” the SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator told Deadline. “It wasn’t until later in the evening, I started getting calls from CEOs and Carol Lombardini that they decided to cancel our scheduled session for today and that they weren’t planning to return to the table.

So at this moment, I do not understand why they think that’s a way to move this process forward, why they think that that’s going to help bring them back to health.

It’s very, very disappointing.” Questioned whether this is going to impact the hope that TV shows can get back into production by month’s end, Crabtree-Ireland said “it’s possible, but it’s not going to happen if they walk away from negotiations.

So long as they refused to talk to us that is possible. So long as they are at the table talking with us helping us all find a path forward than that, then that’s possible.